"There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature."

-- Alexis Carrel

“Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.”
“That's the biggest problem existing in this country! People are always mixing up the word free and freedom. Free is something you get for nothin.' Freedom is a responsibility. We think freedom means do nothing, don't be responsible for your actions.... I think its time for adult Americans to be responsible for themselves, to take back the responsibility of being a free nation.”
“It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.”

Source : "George and his dragons". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.
“Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.”
“The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.”
“Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.”
“A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.”
“Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U.S., in places where they would be free to have as many children as they want. But they choose to continue on to the U.S. Why? Because it is more economically attractive.”

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