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“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
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“Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.”
Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.202, Pan Macmillan
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“But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.”
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“Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.”
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“I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting.”
Source : Roger Ailes (2012). “You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are”, p.82, Crown Business
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“Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.”
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“One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob ...”
Source : Mona Van Duyn (1990). “Near changes: poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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“Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.”
Source : Baccalaureate address as President of Yale, June 12, 1966.
