"The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny."

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Source : "Claire Tomalin: 'Writing induces melancholy. You're alone, a hermit'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.

Claire Tomalin

#Self Quotes #Alive Quotes #Young Quotes

“Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.”

Source : "Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.
“After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.1319, Broadway Books
“Let's take something like antidepressant medications. There's decent science saying it has an effect, but it's shockingly small after you control for penetration of the blind, people knowing that they're getting the active pills versus sugar pills, if you use an active control. It's probably only a few points. But it's a multi, multibillion-dollar industry. And by the way, has huge side effects. 40 percent of the people taking them have significant sexual side effects. And that's just one. A single antidepressant medication can be worth a billion dollars to a company.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Worship is living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing.”
“If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.”
“He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.”
“Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve.”

Source : Judy Tatelbaum (2009). “The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief”, p.8, Harper Collins
“I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.”

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