"I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy."

-- Renee Fleming

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“There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.”
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
“All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.”

Source : Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It is not usually our ideas that make us optimistic or pessimistic, but it is our optimism or pessimism of physiological or pathological origin that makes our ideas.”
“One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to tear up a bunch of cards that it would be to reorganize a large amount of source code.”
“The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global”
“Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ...”
“I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.”

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