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“Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.”
Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.186, Macmillan
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“Comfort is key. I need to make sure the cleat first my foot perfectly. Weight is important, too.”
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“Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.”
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“A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)”
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“My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.”
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“War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.”
Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
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“I've learned that nobody is either all good or all evil. We all make mistakes, but we all are also capable of accomplishing extraordinary things.”
Source : "The Exes’ Kelly Stables: Giving Her Heart to Faith, Motherhood, and the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 
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“Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola”
