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“Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.”
Source : "How to make stress your friend". The TED Interview, www.ted.com. June, 2013.
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“When we're not a party, we sometimes file as amicus, as friend of the court, 25, 30 times a term, sometimes more. And in each of those cases, we've got to decide what position the government's going to take. And that is the solicitor general's job to make that decision.”
Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
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“Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.”
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“Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.”
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“What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.”
Source : Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin
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“Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.”
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“Justice as fairness provides what we want.”
Source : John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.190, Harvard University Press
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“I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.”