"Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in."

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Annie Leonard

#Needs Quotes #Stories Quotes #Information Quotes

“David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.”
“I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.”
“Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.”
“The price for Jarrod's freedom is to be my imprisonment.”

Source : Marianne Curley (2012). “Old Magic”, p.158, A&C Black
“My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy discourages this. They feel your gun should rarely, if ever, be brought out of its holster. Most certainly not when children are involved, which is exactly when I saw myself using my gun most often. A truant teenager loitering outside a movie theater is going to be far more motivated to return to school when he has the barrel of a .45 pressed against his cheek.”
“A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.”
“The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “Vertigo”, p.106, New Directions Publishing
“The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.”

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