"It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure."

-- Margery Fish

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“You never get what you deserve; only what you have the leverage to negotiate.”
“It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.”
“"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."”
“I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.”
“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.”
“There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted”
“One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.”
“There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.”

Source : "I'm too sensitive. How can I toughen up?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. Jnuary 26, 2014.

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