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“When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.”
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“I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.”
Source : W. D. Snodgrass, “April Inventory”
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“When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.”
Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
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“How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)”
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“If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.”
Source : "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
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“There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities.”
Source : Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books
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“The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel not disturbed. The disturbing influence could be a blessing of Mother Nature to develop the habit to make best use out of every situation. Every situation is God Sent. With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature.”
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“The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.”