"Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance."

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Source : "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

Masha Tupitsyn

#Love Is Quotes #Choices Quotes #Encounters Quotes

“Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.”
“Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.”
“Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.”

Source : Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.63, Hachette UK
“It has been proven that more Americans watch television than any other appliance.”
“I realized that the ignorance was profound. I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, it's just that people didn't know what the Shari'a was, as such. They knew that it was something good. I should say perhaps that the Shari'a, etymologically in Arabic, means a desert path to water. It means a path towards salvation, in the seventh-century context, to the desert people. If you have a path to water, that's the path you want to take to get you where you want to get to; where you should get to. And that much was clear but beyond that people didn't know what the rules were.”
“I know there's been questions about-so how long does that continue-and we've now been very clear about that, that software updates to Symbian devices are expected until at least 2016. So there's a long history still to be paved for Symbian in the future.”
“One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.”
“I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.”

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