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“I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.”
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“Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.”
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“public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.”
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“All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.”
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“I get to learn and teach something new everyday.”
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“No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.”
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“We are all amazing and magical as we are. Just remember to remind me of that on rough days.”
Source : "Orange Is the New Black Star Alysia Reiner: Channeling Compassion Into Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.”
Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.40, Transaction Publishers