"In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides."

-- X. J. Kennedy

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“It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.”

Source : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2000). “Respect: An Exploration”, p.4, Basic Books
“Ensure everyone knows what success is and what their role is in achieving it.”
“All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.”
“I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.”
“Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.”
“Whether it's at their job, or their family, whatever - everyone feels that they're stuck in some kind of struggle. The idea is how to find your way out of it.”
“How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'”
“Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.”

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