"Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?"

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Source : "What fear can teach us". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.

Karen Thompson Walker

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Focus Quotes

“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”
“The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.”
“We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”

Source : Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
“I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.”
“You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.”
“In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).”

Source : Ana Castillo (1990). “Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)”, Bilingual Press
“I'm now a member of a pretty small club.”
“Hymns are companions for life travelers.”

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