"Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids."

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Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

Shana Alexander

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“Talent will not always find its way but commitment will.”
“I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.”
“My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to remain with You, in Your presence. Work with me, so that my work might be the very best. Receive as an offering of love both my work and all my affections.”

Source : Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
“To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.”
“Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?”
“That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.”

Source : Rosita Forbes (1935). “From Red Sea to Blue Nile: a thousand miles of Ethiopia”
“It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around.... It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.”
“The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russiaâ€™s communist workers.”

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