"Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most"

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Ellen DeGeneres

“A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.”
“She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.”
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”

Source : "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.
“I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.”
“Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.”

Source : "Simpson, families battle over courtroom camera". www.cnn.com. August 23, 1996.
“I think there is a predisposition among Christians that Hollywood is anti-Jesus or anti-Christianity. I was warned I'd have to fight to maintain the freedom to express my beliefs. It's an unfair stereotype, and so far that's been the farthest from the truth. While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.”
“My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.”
“A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.”

Source : Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”

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