"You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are."

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Tom Rath

“Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.”
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”

Source : Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.”
“...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice.”
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”
“Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.”

Source : Interview with Heidi Raykeill, www.literarymama.com. April 2004.
“"The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and with the responsibility comes a little sharing of the load." "There isn't enough money to organize poor people. There never is enough money to organize anyone. If you put it on the basis of money, you're not going to succeed."”
“In my spare time, I paint, garden, hike and enjoy massages for my weary writer's back.”

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