"A company attitude is rarely anybody's best."

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Source : Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841). “Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home”, p.93

Catharine Sedgwick

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“I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.”
“Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press
“My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend â€” big mistake. Now Iâ€™m single, so London should be really good. Iâ€™m excited.”
“I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.”
“I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.”
“The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.56, Random House Books for Young Readers
“No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.”
“Chance favors those in motion.”

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