"Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go."

-- Lupita Nyong'o

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“Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many children can see through flattery and may even dismiss an adult who heaps on praise as a poor source of support-one who is not very believable.”
“When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.”
“Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.”
“The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.”

Source : "Chicago judge's record rates highly among progressives, colleagues" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2010.
“People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.”

Source : "Vice's New Envelope-Pushing Docu-Series Premieres on HBO Tonight" by Allison P.Davis, www.elle.com. April 5, 2013.
“I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.”

Source : William Langland (2015). “Piers Plowman”, p.59, Booklassic
“All great innovations are built on rejections.”
“Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.”

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