"Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and placeâ€“ a single book written from different stages of your ability."

-- Nadine Gordimer

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“Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.”
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

Source : Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?”
“Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.”
“Pain forces even the innocent to lie.”
“My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.”
“Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.”

Source : Theodore Roosevelt (1975). “The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt: Condensed from the Original Ed., Supplemented by Letters, Speeches, and Other Writings, and Edited with an Introd. by Wayne Andrews”, Octagon Press, Limited
“The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.”

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