"Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)"

-- Elizabeth Strout

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“If you want to become good at something, do it as often as possible. If you want to become an expert at it, do it every day.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert Ringer from Dec 11, 2013
“One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.”
“The force of union conquers all.”
“I want to get the American people to start sitting at a table together and talking to each other, holding court, and enjoying a meal - and it doesn't have an expense.”
“I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.”

Source : "Mary Tyler Moore's Lifetime of Challenges". Interview with Kevin Sessums, parade.com. March 22, 2009.
“If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.”
“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?”
“The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.”

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