"Love taught me to cry So come on courage! Teach me to be shy."

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Source : "Song: 'Cannonball'". 1993.

Damien Rice

#Sadness Quotes #Shy Quotes #Cry Quotes

“The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.”

Source : James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.41, Anchor
“Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.”
“The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.”
“I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very much in the rich nerd tradition. And you know, we say, like, hey, people pay us for this stuff, like programming. You know, what else do we need?”
“It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.”

Source : William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr
“The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.”

Source : John Barth (2006). “Where Three Roads Meet”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'”
“Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.”

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