"Having good relations with lots of lots of different people helps a lot."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

David Plotz

#People Quotes #Different Quotes #Helping Quotes

“When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.”

Source : William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.324, Penguin
“If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.”
“You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.”
“Less opinion, more perspective.”

Source : "19 Lessons Of Beauty, Self-Love And Compassion From Lil B's Life-Changing MIT Lecture". Lil B's lecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), www.mtv.com. November 22, 2014.
“He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.”
“The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument.”
“I don't have anything to hide. And for the record, I am not against plastic surgery. I believe that any woman that wants to do anything or fix anything that bothers her - if she's doing it for herself - I'm all for it.”
“Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.”

Source : Beth Moore (2007). “Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender”, p.42, B&H Publishing Group

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