"Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless."

-- Howard Gardner

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“I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine assignment. It's almost like his story sort of fell in my lap.”
“Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to her, Jon cast about for some sort of polite conversation pertinent to the occasion. â€œI hate funerals, donâ€™t you?â€ He said. â€œI rather like them,â€ she said smugly. â€œAt my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.”
“I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.”

Source : "Tempting Kate" by Jessica Pressler, www.elle.com. September 20, 2013.
“People tend to be put off by the idea of selling sex, but if you spend a winter's night with one of them and talk with her about her family and so on, you're likely to find she's just like any other woman.”
“We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.”

Source : William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.”
“I am way less attached to the number the more I weigh. You always think that if you weigh less and get to that magical number, you'll think less about your weight. But I in fact thought about that lower number more... wanting to stay close to it, fearing it getting higher. I would fret each week seeing it go up. The mission to stay lean was always harder than getting there.”

Source : Source: www.popsugar.com
“I always related my favorite music to the movies.”

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