"Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work."

-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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“So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army - then you know what a dictatorship depends on for its existence.”
“You've got to do it all, the physical as well as the skilful.”
“The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompting is the greatest challenge of all. His conditioning has been so powerful that it has all but destroyed his ability to be self-aware.”
“Courage is acting in spite of fear.”
“Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.”
“I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.”
“To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing”
“The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we'll bring to changing our world.”

Source : "A Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.

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