"What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?"

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Source : Lisi Harrison (2011). “Where There's A Wolf, There's A Way”, p.99, Hachette UK

Lisi Harrison

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“So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.”
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
“I'm glad I'm not a politician.”
“Many people become self-conscious when they communicate. Whether it's writing or speaking, they are consumed by anxiety. Self-consciousness is an impediment to what is required to serve an audience effectively. One's goal must be to achieve audience consciousness. To put oneself in their place, to recognize that the value of any communication arises from how it is received by them, not by what it means to the author. Rather than learning a multiplicity of rules for speaking, for example, I would suggest that a focus on serving one's audience will simplify and clarify everything.”
“Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.”
“Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.”
“The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.”
“Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.”

Source : "Denning's Pot-au-Feu – A decorator indulges his passion for cuisine bourgeoise", by Suzanne Hart, House & Garden, March 1992.

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