"You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do."

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Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.49, Penguin

Melissa Bank

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“Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.”
“If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.”
“Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.”

Source : Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press
“The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.”
“Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.”
“All the poems of our lives are not yet made.”
“Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.”
“I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.”

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