"if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically."

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Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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“Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.”
“I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.”
“I don't like writing with real people in mind.”

Source : "Laura Wade: the girl in the Tories' soup" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.
“I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.”

Source : "The Confession of an Octogenaria". Book by LP Jacks, p. 99, 1942.
“It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.”
“Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.”

Source : Mike Michalowicz (2008). “The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The Tell-it-like-it-is Guide to Cleaning Up in Business, Even If You are at the End of Your Roll”, p.126, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
“There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.”
“It takes no guts to be skeptical, it takes guts to believe.”

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