"Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are."

-- Barbara Mikulski

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“You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.”
“That's what's great about animation: It's collegial, and it's all about collaboration. Any good animated film is good for animation.”
“The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.”
“He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.”
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.”
“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.”
“When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.”
“You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.”

Source : Sarah Kay (2016). “The Type”, p.13, Hachette UK

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