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“Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.”
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“This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops.”
Source : Geoff Ryman (2011). “Paradise Tales”, p.240, Small Beer Press
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“In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations of the past. You are no longer defined by your judgments, opinions or beliefs nor are you defined by the judgment, opinions or beliefs of others.”
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“Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me.”
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“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”
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“God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.”
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“Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.”
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“Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.”
Source : "Goldman Sachs VP explains why he quit". "60 minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. October 24, 2012. 
