"I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!"

-- Christine Lavin

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“Where there is water, there are people.”
“I probably play games more than I practice.”
“Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.”
“In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'”

Source : "Lockerbie bomber: Scottish Catholic leader attacks US 'culture of vengeance'" by Jenny Percival, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2010.
“No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I. And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions.”
“Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.”

Source : Ian McEwan (2010). “Enduring Love”, p.102, Random House
“Today I share my abundance with someone who needs a gift of kindness.”
“If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.”

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