"It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there."

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Source : Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.216, Penguin

Marie Lu

#Hurt Quotes #Absence Quotes #It Hurts Quotes

“Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions”
“Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.”
“Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.”
“Sometimes I go, â€œWhat am I doing with my life?â€ But then I get letters from young women, or people come up to me, and they say, â€œYouâ€™ve made such a difference to my confidence.â€ And that is a good thing. I should read more fan mail though. Iâ€™m crap at responding.”
“In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.”

Source : "Data Storytelling: The Essential Data Science Skill Everyone Needs" by Brent Dykes, www.forbes.com. March 31, 2016.
“I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.”
“Betty White met with President Obama at the White House. President Obama invited Betty personally because she's great with animals. And the president's still having a tough time house-training Joe Biden.”
“The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare.”

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