"Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference."

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Source : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

Mignon McLaughlin

#Differences Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Our national fondness for celebrating the physical heroism of soldiers - the apparent readiness with which they sacrifice their lives to larger causes - eclipses the far less romantic displays of moral and intellectual fortitude that also distinguish so many of them. In turning them all into heroes, we have lost a sense of the individuality they also fight to preserve.”
“I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their math is better than their English is.”
“If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.”
“The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.”

Source : "Family Guy". www.imdb.com. 1998.
“Do you want your blood to stay where it is sochar-lar?" Tavi lifted both eyebrows at the unfamiliar word, and glanced at Varg. "Monkey," Varg supplied, in Aleran. "And male-child." "He called me monkey boy?" Tavi asked.”
“Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.”
“I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.”
“It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”

Source : Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.266, Soft Skull Press

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