"Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight."

-- Maya Angelou

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“Dont try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.”
“A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.”
“We need a leader who can lower taxes, protect small businesses, and increase job creation nationwide. I have no doubt that John McCain appreciates the important role Hispanics play not only in the economy, but in our nation's culture as well -- he has a track record with Hispanics for more than 20 years as a senator from Arizona. The American people need a strong leader who has the experience and the judgment to be the next President of the United States, and that man is John McCain.”

Source : "McCain Counters Powell Endorsement With Soap Opera Actress" by Nico Pitney, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2008.
“The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.”
“Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on at you in the hope that there's something beyond you. Some nights I sit here and talk and sob and stare out into the blackness thinking that if I look hard enough I'll see the light behind. But I stay out until the break of day, waiting, hoping, and there's only sunrise again.”

Source : Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.108, Pan Macmillan
“When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.”
“To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”
“... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.”

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