Source : Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”
Mari Evans“Singin' in the Rain (1952) and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
“I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.”
“A rich man's war and a poor man's fight...”
Source : Shelby Foote (1986). “The Civil War, a Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian”, Vintage
“To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.”
Source : Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.184, Beacon Press
“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.”
Source : "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" edited by Henry Southgate, 1862.
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