"The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary."

-- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

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“That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.”

Source : Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.105, Penguin
“I say all the time that if you really want to feel alive, it's not through striving for yourself. If you really want to feel alive, it's not through trying to get more things or get more success or climbing a corporate ladder or getting to the top. Because, once you get there, you realize that you don't really find happiness in that. If you want to feel alive and if you want to feel peace and happiness, give your life away. Do something that is outside of yourself for someone else. I think that's the way to truly feel alive.”

Source : "Natalie Grant’s whirlwind success continues with 'Hurricane'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed”
“Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.”
“Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.”
“Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.”
“Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to Hell? Did you ask them that?”
“Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep to what you have received from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church? You introduce novelties!”

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