"When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you."

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Sterling W Sill

#Air Quotes #Giving Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers â€” and they still are not making partner and are not getting into the positions that lead to the executive suites. There's still an old-boy network. You just have to keep fighting.”

Source : "Muriel Siebert, a Determined Trailblazer for Women on Wall Street, Dies at 84" by Enid Nemy, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 2013.
“My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.”
“When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.”
“Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.”

Source : Allan Massie (2013). “Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns”, Quartet Books (UK)
“Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.”
“I have studied the effects of our new lots of polio vaccine in 100 adult volunteers and during the next few days shall give it to my wife and 2 children as well as to our neighbors and their children.”
“My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”

Source : "The Lonely Hunter" l. 24 (1896) See McCullers 1
“I think if you're Red Sox, well, it's something you're born with, and affection you have.”

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