"One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear."

-- Rumi

“not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.”

Source : Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”
“I am someone that is very competitive. When I'm on the field, I compete. When I'm practicing, when I'm in meetings. I'm a competitor in everything.”
“This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.”

Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.
“Flying is the best possible thing for women.”
“We met at nine We met at eight I was on time No, you were late Ah yes! I remember it well.”

Source : 1958 'I Remember it Well', in the musical Gigi (music by Frederick Loewe).
“It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.”
“All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.”
“If the world were a big apartment, we wouldn't get our deposit back.”

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