"simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy."

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Source : Marjorie Holmes (1982). “I've/Talk/Somebd/God”, Bantam Books

Marjorie Holmes

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“I love Los Angeles. It has a lot to offer culturally and has amazing restaurants.”

Source : "Greg Rutherford: 'I ate sushi with Charlize Theron and Usher'". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 7, 2016.
“There are reasons, and then there are excuses.”
“For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.”
“In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.”
“If there is anything that puzzles me in this game, it is that the longer that you are in the job of prime minister, the harder you have to work to do your job. With anything else ....you get to know the ropes pretty well and it becomes easy. I feel the more you know, the more you have to know and the more problems come at you. It is certainly not because I do not delegate.”
“My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game.”
“In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.”
“Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.”

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