"Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe."

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Source : Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.110, Sheba Blake Publishing

Fanny Fern

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“Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole.”

Source : Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1948). “What is man”
“Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.”
“Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.”
“What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.”
“I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?”

Source : "Politicians Regret, Reflect On Iraq War Vote". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.
“Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.”
“I do believe that models should be older now. You tell girls to go and catwalk and be sexy, but some of these girls have never even experienced their first kiss, so they don't understand how to be like that.”
“Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.”

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