"Power is a test - the test - of character."

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Source : Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.454, Pickle Partners Publishing

Evalyn Walsh McLean

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“Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.”

Source : Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.83, Trafford Publishing
“I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.”

Source : Lisa See (2013). “Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.413, Random House
“I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.”
“Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.”
“When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.”
“The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.”
“Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.”

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