"The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills."

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Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

Sheila Ballantyne

#Skills Quotes #Training Quotes #Survival Quotes

“The Resurrection was the greatest â€˜eucatastropheâ€™ possible in the greatest Fairy Story â€” and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.”
“I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot.”
“A brand is a storehouse of trust that matters more and more as choices multiply. People want to simplify their lives.”
“I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.”
“Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.”
“Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.”
“As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin.”
“I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures”

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