"I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!"

-- Elif Batuman

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“Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.”
“Art is our weapon. Â Culture is a form of resistance.”
“He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.”
“Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.”
“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”
“He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.”

Source : Alexandra Potter (2005). “Do You Come Here Often?”, p.340, Simon and Schuster
“By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.”

Source : Charles L. Whitfield (2010). “Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self”, p.59, Health Communications, Inc.
“So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.”

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