"Itâ€™s not that you have to achieve anything, itâ€™s that you have to get away from where you are."

-- Marguerite Duras

#Achieve Quotes #Where You Are Quotes #Get Away Quotes

“Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour.”
“Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of men's affections, more than all their swords!”

Source : Samuel Daniel, “Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex”
“What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.”
“I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do, that's where I'm going to go.”

Source : Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 5, 2009.
“If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.”
“There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami.”

Source : "Scarborough Country", www.nbcnews.com. January 3, 2005.
“Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.”

Source : "Bonobos: What we can learn from our primate cousin". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. December 6, 2015.
“When I started tentatively dipping a toe into fat-positive internet spaces, I learned that reclaiming the term was the quickest and most powerful way to make it stop hurting. If you can say, "Yes, I am fat, and it's okay to be fat," then all of a sudden it doesn't hurt when someone says it to you. And it's also just a descriptor. It's like tall.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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