"People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed."

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Source : Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.47, tredition

Ada Leverson

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“When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.”

Source : "Davos: Quiet Optimism Rises, Angelina Who?, and a Bonus to Giving Idea" by Cameron Sinclair, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2009.
“Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.”
“I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!”
“He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with all other colors.”
“Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.”
“There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.”
“In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.”
“I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.”

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