"They say that the best counsel is that of woman."

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Source : "'El médico de su honra' ('The Surgeon of his Honour')". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Act 1, Scene 2, 1637.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.”
“You're really playing against yourself. You have to learn what you can control and what you can't, and not let what you can't control affect your confidence.”
“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.”
“I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.”

Source : Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”
“Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.”
“We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down”
“I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.”
“I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.”

Source : "Clean Your Grill, And Other Hot Holiday Tips From Food Network's Alton Brown". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 26, 2012.

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