"It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true."

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Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.190, Northwestern University Press

Phyllis Bottome

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“I respect the Governor's position to veto SB1062, especially in light of the concerns brought up over the past week. I understand the concerns of people of good faith on all sides of this issue.”
“To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.”

Source : "Piłsudski: A Life For Poland". Book by Wacław Jędrzejewicz, 1982.
“I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.”
“One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.”
“I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“This is just the loveliest news. I'm so happy for everybody involved, and so proud to have been part of the wonderful experience that Philomena has been.”
“Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.”
“Art wasn't for selling. Actually, we once did have an offer on Double Negative. Things could be sold actually - everything could be for sale. But we had very few buyers. I think it was Michael Heizer who said that the point was to have a bigger canvas, and I've used that expression quite a bit. But I was thinking today that a canvas has boundaries; it has limit to it. And for earthwork, it was the very openness and feeling that there were no boundaries that made it so exciting.”

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