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Katherine Paterson

"A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order."

-- Katherine Paterson

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“When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.”
“Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build a working version of it. The Internet has amazing powers of distribution. You can test your ideas. You can see if it works, if it doesn't work, whether it's fun, and whether you're sufficiently motivated. People who go into entrepreneurship to get rich aren't going to be happy. Itâ€™s the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.”
“With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.”
“The blessings of having the Holy Ghost in your life are enormous. It will lead, guide, enlighten, show, bless, teach, comfort, testify, witness to, and literally purify you. In your life as a missionary, you cannot succeed in any phase of work without the Holy Ghost. You cannot teach or be directed in the work.”
“I'm confident and I trust my instincts.”
“I'll take any risk there is.”
“Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?”

Source : Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.
“It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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