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“When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.”
Source : Susan Boyle (2010). “The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
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“I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.”
Source : Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.181, Penguin
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“Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.”
Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.
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“May we learn to say “thank you†to God and to one another. We teach children to do it, and then we forget to do it ourselves!”
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“My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground - to die.”
Source : Richard Henry Wilde, “Stanzas”
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“Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.”
Source : David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House
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“When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet... When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world.”
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“In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.”
