"There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things."

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Source : Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

Neal Shusterman

#People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Ordinary People Quotes

“Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings”
“We really donâ€™t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.”
“All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.”
“As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.”
“Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.”
“Don't fight the problem, decide it.”

Source : "The Wise Men". Book by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, 1986.
“Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.”
“He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it politely, but firmly. "No, thank you," he would say and the fight would go on and on and on.”

Source : "Chess Great Bent Larsen Dies" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2010.

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