"If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you."

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Source : Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.78, Anchor

Jennifer Egan

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“He found a formula for drawing comic rabbits: This formula for drawing comic rabbits paid. Till in the end he could not change the tragic habits This formula for drawing comic rabbits made.”
“Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.”
“Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.18, Penguin
“I don't like being shouted at.”

Source : "Q & A With Lesley Nicol of Downton Abbey: Salty Raspberry Meringue, Adventures in Pretend Cooking + How Mrs. Patmore is Like Gordon Ramsay". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. January 5, 2013.
“[God's] purposes are always accomplished. His enemies are always defeated. His faithful followers are always rewarded. His Son's throne will be established forever.”
“Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.”
“Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.”

Source : Martha C. Nussbaum (2012). “Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities”, p.81, Princeton University Press
“Rick Blaine: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have Paris, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night. Ilsa Lund: When I said I would never leave you. . . . Rick Blaine: And you never will. But I got a job to do too. Where I'm going you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now . . . here's looking at you kid.”

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