"I can still discern people's weaknesses, but it doesn't make me want to exploit them; it makes me want to hug them."

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Source : Interview With Rebecca Keith, therumpus.net. April 2, 2010.

Melissa Febos

#People Quotes #Hug Quotes #Weakness Quotes

“Standing on the court and holding up that trophy - it's so great you want to keep doing it over and over again.”
“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”

Source : Interview with Paul Harris, www.harrisonline.com. May 30, 1996.
“Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.”
“Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.158, Cambridge University Press
“The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.”

Source : Amelia B. Edwards (2008). “A Thousand Miles Up the Nile: Fully Illustrated Second Edition”, p.186, Norton Creek Press
“The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.”
“One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.”
“Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.”

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