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“When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.”
Source : Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.108, Penguin
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“To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.”
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“Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.”
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“Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.”
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“Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?”
Source : marilyn french (1977). “the womens room”
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“Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.”
Source : Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press
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“I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.”
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“There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world”
