"Come find me," Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. "Whenever you want. I'll be here."

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Source : Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.97, Scholastic UK

Aimee Friedman

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“It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it”
“... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.”
“I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.”

Source : "W.O.W. : Writers on Writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.
“Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated - concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.”
“When you have something good... When you have something good, you don't play with it! You don't take chances with it! You don't take risks with it! When you got something good, you get every single thing you can get out of it! Because guess what? When you take care of something good, that something good takes care of you.”
“A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.”

Source : Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”
“Without the church it's like having a boat without the rudder. You think you can do it on your own and this may sound pedestrian or trite but I'll equate it to this: all my life I've been involved with exercise but no matter how much - and I know a great deal about the body - you need help. You need a trainer. You need to go to a gym and you need to have the expertise and the guidance of someone else. You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and what the church is. The church is the gym of the soul.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.”

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