"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

-- Gertrude Stein

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“The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.”
“You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.”
“Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?”
“As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.”
“Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.”
“The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.”

Source : Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1987). “Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University”, Harcourt
“There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.”
“Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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