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“It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.”
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“There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.”
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“Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will.”
Source : "Never Say Never". Book by Phyllis George, abcnews.go.com. 2002.
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“I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.”
Source : "Tammy Blanchard: 'Not uptight about anything'". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.deseretnews.com. July 12, 2012.
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“We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.”
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“Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.”
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“Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.”
Source : "Knowledge of Hell". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.
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“But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.”