"It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles."

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Source : Muriel Spark (2015). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, p.68, Canongate Books

Muriel Spark

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“I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris
“Iâ€™m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream.”
“The current CEO of Wal-Mart says he has "no choice" but to sacrifice the welfare of his employees in order to serve his customers' need for low prices. So, why are they paying the guy millions a year if there is no possibility for him to change things? I think he is either kidding us or himself. The truth is more likely that he likes things the way they are, or he lacks the strategic imagination to come up with a viable and profitable ways to change them. If either is true, he is overpaid and probably not up to doing the job.”

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“One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.”
“People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that." "If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.”
“Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.”

Source : Joan Walsh Anglund (1990). “Crocus in the Snow: A Book of Poems”, Random House Incorporated
“When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!”
“The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.”

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