"The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward."

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Source : Carol Ryrie Brink (2011). “Caddie Woodlawn's Family”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

Carol Ryrie Brink

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“There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.”
“We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.”
“For me, environment is all. Place is absolutely essential.”

Source : "Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews".
“If you're a songwriter, it's to perform your songs. For singers, it's just to get to sing somewhere. So while there may be a reluctance with all the things that go along with it, you got to choose, and this is one of my big opportunities to get back doing it.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“It`s all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue.”
“Itâ€™s unlikely to change â€“ thereâ€™s nothing in King Salmanâ€™s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. Thereâ€™s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that heâ€™s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down â€¦ I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.”
“Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations of being able to create something that isn't necessarily your own instincts - is a character that you have inside your head - whether you're talking about television or film or theater, that still has to be the grounding work.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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