"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."

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Source : Mary Webb (1928). “Precious Bane”

Mary Webb

#Life Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Path Quotes

“If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.”
“You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.”
“I never try to predict the market.”
“I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.”

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“There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.”
“Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.”

Source : "The Man Behind The 'Moneyball' Sabermetrics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 26, 2011.
“I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.”
“It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.”

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