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“You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.”
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“In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.”
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“Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can.”
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“Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.”
Source : "Ancillary Justice". Book by Ann Leckie, Orbit Books, Chapter 6 (p. 88), October 1, 2013.
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“Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.”
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“When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.”
Source : Roz Savage (2009). “Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean”, p.240, Simon and Schuster
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“The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem.”
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“Sorry to take your award, Faith ... Everybody knows that it's really not about the numbers and the chart positions and the sales and all that stuff, it's about relationships and my two best friends are at home ... I know you're as excited as I am ...”