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“For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there”
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“The Spain of today looks at the Second Republic with great appreciation and above all with satisfaction and pride for what we have been able to do in this constitutional age".”
Source : Congress of Deputies, May 01, 2006.
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“You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.”
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“What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.”
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“I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.”
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“No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see.”
Source : Chris Crutcher (1995). “Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes”, Laurel Leaf
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“. . . it's not just the people we love, but the people we let love us back who show us how high we can really soar.”
Source : Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.261, Penguin
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“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.”
Source : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books
