"Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!"

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Source : Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.523, Scholastic Inc.

Cynthia Lord

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“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
“Our brains seem to have the power to do one or the other - record and remember every detail, or chunk it to higher level concepts and forget the details. We can't seem to do both. The fact that you could not fly over a city and remember every detail is not something to worry about.”

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“Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?”
“The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.”
“I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school.”
“I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.”
“Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but Iâ€™ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.”
“Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.”

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