"The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child."

-- Victor Ponta

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“He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.”
“I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.”

Source : "The Best Lines From Gwyneth Paltrow's New Cookbook". Interview with Raphael Brion, www.eater.com. March 19, 2013.
“There is always a plan B.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Kaboom". "Spy Corps", www.imdb.com. 2006.
“Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?”
“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.”
“I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.”
“Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them. It is not too much to say that ritual is more to society than words are to thought. For it is very possible to know something and then find words for it. But it is impossible to have social relations without symbolic acts.”

Source : "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo".
“The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.”

Source : Hank Aaron (2009). “I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story”, p.19, Harper Collins

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