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“Step aside? I step aside for nobeast, whether it be a hallowed hedgehog, an officious otter, a seasoned squirrel, a mutterin' mole or a befuddled badger!”
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“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
Source : "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1982.
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“Sometimes we depersonalize people who we don't agree with or who we see as targets for hatred. If you think of anything as having a mother, that's going to change everything. All of us have mothers and came from a womb. Buddha says you can't hate anything you understand.”
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“Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.”
Source : E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.171, Cornell University Press
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“Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.”
Source : Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993
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“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.”
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“I use 'wicked' all the time! It's part of my slang! When something's really rad, I'm like, 'That's wicked.' It has many meanings but worldwide, it seems like young people think it alludes to being either the naughtier side of you, or the trendier, cool side of you. I like it either way.”
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“The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.”
Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2006). “The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage
