"Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Halloween is the only day I can dress up like a hot Latina woman with a beer belly.”
“I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.”
“In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.”
“I believe that I definitely wasn't given this voice just to sing. I think it was given to me for a bigger purpose.”
“I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.”
“I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.”

Source : "Top 5 Girl Power Role Models of 2015" By Lauren Galley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2015.
“You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist amasses facts, anecdotes and interviews with top brass. Enough of these add up to a book. A novelist demands quite different things. He has to find himself in his materials, to know for sure how he would feel and act and the events he writes about. In addition, he requires a catalyst â€” a person, idea, or emotion which coalesces his ingredients and makes them jell into a solid purpose.”
“Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.”

Source : FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 28, 2013

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