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Susan Beth Pfeffer

"I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death."

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Susan Beth Pfeffer

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“If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.”
“In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.”
“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”

Source : Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.37, Ballantine Books
“Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.”
“To think of failure is to fail.”
“Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die weâ€™ll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesnâ€™t mean weâ€™ll get turned into witches. You canâ€™t avoid getting zapped, but you can avoid passing the mean energy on. Thatâ€™s the interesting thing about witches, the challenge of them-- learning not to hit back, or hit somebody else, when they zap you. You can bury the zap, for instance, like the gods buried the Titans in the center of the earth. Or you can be like a river when a forest fire hits it--phshhhhhhhhhhhh! Just drown it, drown all the heat and let it wash away.”
“It's strange the way people hear and see things. Like going to films - Â—violent films. To me, seeing violence in a film makes me hate the violence. But there's beauty in violence if it's put over the right way.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.”

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