"Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean."

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Source : Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.27, Candlewick Press

Alison McGhee

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“If people think I'm a laid-back guy, that's their mistake.”
“Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your â€˜freeâ€™ time.”
“You all know I have terminal cancerâ€”and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afarâ€”if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow.”
“Dance as if no one's watching, love as if it's never going to hurt.”
“My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.”
“It wouild be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.' John Horgan.”
“Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.”
“As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do you make it work with your husband?' The interesting thing is that these women - most of them - don't lose the perspective that the focus is not the position but the job at hand.”

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