"For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want."

-- Ferdinand Mount

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“The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality”

Source : Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
“If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own capability. Human being is full of capacity full of capability, is a wonderful creation. But many people never get a chance to explore that, never, no that she nor he has that”

Source : Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. December 12, 2006.
“Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional”
“The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.”

Source : "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview With Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
“When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you,'”
“Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.”
“I try to put myself into whatever character I play.”
“I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.”

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