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“I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [...] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself.”
Source : Ronnie Drew (2009). “Ronnie”, p.196, Penguin UK
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“Manifesting the blessings is not really anything that is complicated or even difficult. Clear out what is not serving you or no longer actively being utilized. Give and share joyously. Receive graciously. Make amends. Adorn yourself first with inner beauty so the outer beauty may benefit from your best intentions. Contribute more than you take. Make each place you find yourself better than you found it. Be an abundant source of good tidings to and from God. In short, let go and let God.”
Source : John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.162, Mandeville Press
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“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”
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“Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.”
Source : "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago - Now it's Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012. 
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“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
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“How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three of them jumped the fourth and began beating him up?”
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“I love my friends. I love my love-life. I love my hobbies. I love eating.”
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“I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.”
Source : "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.
