"How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination, we may rightly claim it as our own. ... The way to make material your own is to look for it in yourself. ... It should be a story that only you can tell, as only you can tell it."

-- Peter Selgin

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“Subordinates look for their bosses to be positive, in good humor, and cheerful. They aren't supposed to be emotional or have bad days. but leaders are guman, too, and when they are in a lousy mood and snap at a subordinate, it can have a devastating effect.”
“Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“Despite what I feel for Peeta, this is when I accept deep down that he'll never come back to me. Or i'll never go back to him. I'll die for my trouble. And he'll die insane and hating me.”
“For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.109, Tuttle Publishing
“How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.”
“When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.”
“I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and I fine it $40.”
“The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.”

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