"A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world."

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Source : Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

Olive Schreiner

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“Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.”
“I had a lot of excess skin - I just needed to have it firmed”
“It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.”
“Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.”
“I think women still want to be married. But I don't think they'll do anything to get married anymore”
“I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.”
“The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.”
“We were really helped when President Ronald Reagan came in. I remember non-commissioned officers who were going to retire and they re-enlisted because they believed in President Reagan. That's the kind of President Ronald Reagan was. He helped our country win the Cold War. He put it behind us in a way no one ever believed would be possible. He was truly a great American leader. And those of us in the Armed Forces loved him, respected him, and tremendously admired him for his great leadership.”

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