"Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait."

-- Alexandre Dumas

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“The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?”
“Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that had been done by people even if they only had one leg or couldn't see or had been dropped on their heads when they were babies. 'It's to make me brave,' she'd explained to Annika.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2006). “The Star of Kazan”, Puffin
“Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.”
“It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (1996). “Novels and Stories”
“For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.”
“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.”
“You have to be cautious of eating continuously the same thing. Beef comes to mind right away, and there's nothing wrong with beef, but you've got to do whatever you're doing in moderation. So try to break it up a little bit. Eat some fish or some shellfish at least a couple of times a week.”
“If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.”

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