"Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly."

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Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

Susannah Cahalan

#Thinking Quotes #Needs Quotes #Littles Quotes

“...let joy be unconfined...”
“The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.”

Source : Chalmers Johnson (2001). “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire”, p.23, Macmillan
“Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don't care what anyone else thinks.”
“You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.”
“How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.”
“Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.”
“I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.”
“...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people.”

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