"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

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Source : Dorothy West (2010). “The Richer, the Poorer”, p.77, Anchor

Dorothy West

“Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.”
“I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.”
“How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.”
“In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.”
“Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.”
“Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species”
“We start from Kuwait, and to Kuwait we end. Anyone but that, is not from Kuwait, and Kuwait is not from them.”
“People are freer in America. But there are more tears.”

Source : Avi, Greg Ruth (2012). “City of Orphans”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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