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“There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.”
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“I'm not fighting with myself.”
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“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”
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“For a long time, to obtain enterprise customers, I concealed the fact that I owned the company. I never lied about it, but I never volunteered that information. My business card didn't even have a title”
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“I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.”
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“It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.”
Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
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“Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.”
Source : Stephen Prothero (2010). “God Is Not One”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“As a species, we're not only wired to choose today over tomorrow, but we hate to feel like we're losing out on something. The bottom line is, if we feel like we're losing something we avoid it, we won't do it. That's why so many people don't save and invest. Saving sounds like you're giving something up, you're losing something today. But you're not.”
