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“Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.”
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“You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.”
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“If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.”
Source : Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.456, The Floating Press
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“Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.”
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“The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child. Will Ferrell is a man.”
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“I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.”
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“I have no complaints. I am comfortable and satisfied. I am not the kind of person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.”
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“Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.”
Source : Alison Jolly (1999). “Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution”