"Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive."

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Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.163, Random House

Gail Caldwell

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“The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.”

Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
“We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.”
“A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.”
“Did you hear charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love.”
“There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers.”
“In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

Source : Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.
“The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.”

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