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“Let us encourage the generosity which is typical of the young and help them to work actively in building a better world. Youth do not solely need material things. Above all, they need to have those non-material values which are the spiritual heart of a people ... spirituality, generosity, solidarity, perseverance, fraternity, and joy.”
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“And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.”
Source : "'Matterhorn' Author On What It's Like 'To Go To War'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. August 30, 2011.
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“I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.”
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“The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.”
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“I think there are some groups of stocks that are highly vulnerable because they're in cuckoo land in terms of valuations,”
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“One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.”
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“Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.”
Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2308, Delphi Classics
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“I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement.”
Source : "Tara Subkoff: 'I Survived a Brain Tumor'" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 17, 2010.