"I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didnâ€™t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowersâ€™ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike."

-- Sylvia Plath

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“Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spent an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all.”
“Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.”

Source : Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr
“I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.”

Source : Thoroughbred & Classic Cars interview, January 1, 1991.
“Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate and those in need. People saw Roberto as a great ballplayer and humanitarian. He was also a great father, husband, teammate and friend.”
“Sure, companies say they're sensitive to their employees' cultural heritages, but show up on casual Friday wearing a necklace made from the ears of your vanquished enemies and all hell breaks loose.”
“The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.”
“Perhaps some day men will raise a tablet reading in letters of gold: 'All honor to women, the first disenfranchised class in history who, unaided by any political party, won enfranchisement by its own effort ... and achieved the victory without the shedding of a drop of human blood. All honor to women of the world!”

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