"I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build."

-- John D. Rockefeller

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“The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.”
“Vision looks upward and becomes faith.”
“A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.”
“If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or memoir. If you don't want to make that claim - if that's not what's important to you; if you're more interested in storytelling and interiority and interpersonal relationships than in objective, checkable facts about the world - then why wouldn't you call it a novel, and take advantage of what that gets you, of the extra freedom, of belonging to the tradition of the novel?”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.”
“Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping them down to just lyrics and the story inside the lyrics, and trying to make them really mine.”
“Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2011). “The Reader”, p.25, Hachette UK
“I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.”

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