"Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be precise requires care, time, and attention to the person, place, or process being described."

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Source : Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.51, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

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“It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.”
“I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me”
“Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.”
“I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.”
“Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can't forget that.”
“I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.”

Source : "Mary-Kate Olsen: 'I would never wish my upbringing on anyone'". www.mtv.com. August 05, 2010.
“The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him - through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy - will deal with societal suffering in the same way.”

Source : Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”

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