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“Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.”
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“Most women know that sex isgood for headaches.”
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“The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.”
Source : "Robert Zoellick: “Getting Stuff Done” at the World Bank and Beyond" by Mark V. Vlasic, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2012.
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“Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.”
Source : Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.68, Courier Corporation
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“It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.”
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“The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.”
Source : "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.
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“I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.”
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“I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can’t you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?”