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“To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery.”
Source : Edvard Grieg, Richard Yates (2010). “Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces”, p.24, Mel Bay Publications
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“My best advice to working women is just try what you think right now will be best for you and your family - and if it doesn't work, then change it. And look for ways to cut corners to add to your sanity.”
Source : Source: www.elle.com
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“In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).”
Source : Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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“Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.”
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“Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.”
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“We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that would be better. Or we pay wages in the public sector which are roughly equivalent to the productivity in the private sector and we don't therefore make it a special benefit to get a bureaucratic position.”
Source : Source: www.aims.ca
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“Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you really don't want to smile at. Do it for Peace.”
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“I don't think the tennis tour is the place to have friends”
