"It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live."

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Source : Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.35, Rowman & Littlefield

Edward Hoagland

#Children Quotes #Suicidal Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by making this journey, whereas refugees by definition have lost a tremendous amount - not just country and society, but also more personal things like careers, prestige, status, relatives, identities. This inevitably makes the longing to remember the past even more powerful among refugees, to the point of often debilitating them.”
“Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me.”
“A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.”
“As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.”

Source : Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books
“Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.”

Source : "Women And Success: 26 Things Every Woman Should Know" By Margaret Wheeler Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2013.
“Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time.”
“Leverage your uniqueness.”
“Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.”

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