"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."

-- David Guterson

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“Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.”
“I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.”
“While I'm trying to be a villain, Tyler Posey's just making me break character all the time. It's hilarious.”
“Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?”
“Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.”
“To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.”
“Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.”
“One of the best ways of becoming an effective parentâ€”or, for that matter, an effective human beingâ€”is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to â€œget into their world.”

Source : Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., Cheryl Erwin, Roslyn Ann Duffy (2007). “Positive Discipline: The First Three Years: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child”, p.44, Harmony

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