"Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen."

-- Plutarch

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“I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.”
“The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.”
“The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.”

Source : Holly Black (2008). “Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale”, p.194, Simon and Schuster
“The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.”
“Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.”
“Spontaneity is the province of youth”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy: (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar)”, p.1091, Macmillan
“Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.”
“I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.”

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