"Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak."

-- Erica Jong

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“The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.”
“In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.”
“What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.”
“I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.”
“It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.”

Source : Sharon M. Draper (2010). “Out of My Mind”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
“Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.”
“When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.”
“If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned me. It has the forms and lights and colors that I respond to in nature and in art. If there is a western speech, I speak it; if there is a western character or personality, I am some variant of it; if there is a western culture in the small-c , anthropological sense, I have not escaped it. It has to have shaped me. I may even have contributed to it in minor ways, for culture is a pyramid to which each of us brings a stone.”

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