"As I got older, my voice got better."

-- Daryl Hall

“Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder. So just appreciate. I feel like in our world today we focus on so many things that are completely pointless.”

Source : "Jessica Simpson comments on weight-gain onstage" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. January 30, 2009.
“To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time--they need to be able to picture themselves in the future.... If they can't, then they're simply reacting to daily events, responding to the needs of the moment--for pleasure, for affiliation, for acceptance.”
“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”
“I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.”
“One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods is the deliberation with which Archimedes approaches the solution of any one of his main problems.”
“I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
“I think the economy in the US has surprised. The old adage is that if America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. If the US economy does well, the global economy will do well.”
“Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything elseâ€¦ By focusing on only a few core features in the first version, you are forced to find the true essence and value of the product.”

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