"We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola,"

-- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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“I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds. But I will not endlessly gaze at them. I shall allow the memories to prod me into doing better with those still living. And I shall allow them to sharpen the vision and intensify the hope for that Great Day coming when we can all throw ourselves into each other's arms and say, "I'm sorry."”
“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”

Source : Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1999). “Awakening: A Sufi Experience”, Tarcher
“A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.”
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”
“A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.”
“I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.”

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