"The happy have whole days,"

-- Colley Cibber

“Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.”
“All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.”
“Humans were always surprising me.”
“At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.”
“He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.203, Penguin
“Thereâ€™s not really such thing as â€˜goodâ€™ or â€˜badâ€™ people, thereâ€™s just likeâ€¦humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.”
“The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch.' The American people's work created that money. Only in Washington could there be a belief that letting people keep more of what they create is a giveaway.”
“I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.”

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