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“I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up.”
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“People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.”
Source : "Capt. Chesley Sullenberger". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. June 15, 2012. 
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“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
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“Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.”
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“The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.”
Source : Harry Allen Overstreet (1925). “Influencing Human Behavior”
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“You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.”
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“First of all, I don't think of myself as a northern Michigan writer. I think of myself as an American writer who happens - and yes, by choice, and for a long time now - to live in this particular place, and where, as the joke goes, there are only three seasons: July, August, and winter.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality there's still a long way to go. On the other hand it's obvious that it's much easier to change a law than to change a way of thinking.”
Source : "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.
