"perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind."

-- Elif Safak

#Mind Quotes #Speak Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.”
“I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.”

Source : "Listen, learn ... then lead". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.
“You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.”
“Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”
“At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.”

Source : Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.74, Macmillan
“I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.”
“Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.”
“And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.”

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