"When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book."

-- Paula Danziger

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“For us to feel peace within our hearts while we live here on earth we must be righteous. There is nothing that the world calls fun or pleasurable that can compare to the inner happiness and joy that comes from being righteous, nothing. That may be something you don't think much about, but if you will take time to identify how you feel when you make an unrighteous choice and compare that to how you feel when you make a difficult but righteous choice, you will know what I am talking about.”
“What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?”

Source : "How to Get a Job at Google". mobile.nytimes.com. February 22, 2014.
“Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.”
“From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody Ive ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.”
“If we were created in Godâ€™s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.”
“I'm sure that a lot of women and men feel differently about it, but for me this isn't about being the girl in the band... it's just about being IN the band, if that makes sense? We're trying to keep it in a pure and genuine place for us and not break it down to gender, because it's just a bit boring and obvious isn't it?”
“There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.”
“Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. â€”Popular aphorism.”

Source : Jack Vance (1981). “Star King”, p.7, Spatterlight Press

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