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“When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.”
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“To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.”
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“What is the key to life on Earth?”
Source : "Fictional character: Master". "Ambition", www.imdb.com. 2014.
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“Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the last possible instant. If we have an hour, we should wait 59 minutes before responding. If we have a year, we should wait 364 days. Even if we have just half a second, we should wait as long as we possibly can ... Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.”
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“A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.”
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“What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.”
Source : FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Mar 05, 2017
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“Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.”
Source : James Lipton (1991). “An Exaltation of Larks”, Viking Adult
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“Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world.”