"I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period."

-- Oprah Winfrey

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“I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.”
“What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession with personal demands, needs and disappointments? Â The answer is: Whatever you do, may it benefit everyone.”
“I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory”
“song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone.”
“Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.”

Source : Rafe Esquith (2007). “Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56”, p.80, Penguin
“The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.”
“Virtue is its own reward.”
“One doesn't like to appear vulgarly inquisitive. But if everyone one knows has suddenly started murdering everyone else, it would be terribly nice to know about it.”

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