"Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise."

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“Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.”
“The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.”
“Rarely, Type 2 diabetes develops without any readily identifiable predisposing factor. But in the great majority of cases, it is brought on by lifestyle activities, including, and clearly most importantly, dietary choices.”

Source : "You Can Prevent Alzheimer’s" by David Perlmutter, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2013.
“As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.”
“I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have been fortunate to work in places where people have a passion for their work. At HHS the passion sort of exceeds passion - it's a vocation.... I obviously knew that there were certainly some challenges that I would be taking on both with the work and the politics. [But] I probably did not have the right expectation level with regard to the number and volume of crises that would occur.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.”
“The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.”

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