"Don't tell me words don't matter,"

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Source : "Deval Patrick: Massachusetts' Idealist-in-Chief" by Sheryl Huggins Salomon, www.theroot.com. April 20, 2011.

Deval Patrick

“I just have to come clean and admit I am an extremely, painfully slow writer. I have this unfortunate - or fortunate, I'm not sure which is correct - habit of editing while I'm writing which everyone tells me that I shouldn't do that. But that's just the way I write and I think it's important to stay true to your own writing style and momentum.”

Source : Source: chicagoist.com
“When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow,slow,slow. People said, 'Emil, you are crazy. You are training like a sprinter.'”
“A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.”
“The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.”
“You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.”
“The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.”

Source : "Keeping Together in Time". Book by William Hardy McNeill, Ch. 4: Religious Ceremonies, 1995.
“My mom's disease, Hodgkin's disease, wiped us out financially. We eventually lost our businesses. I understand we're all one car wreck from needing help. But what it told Lindsey Graham, above all else, is that family, friends and faith really do matter. I'm a lucky man to have had all the support I've had all these years.”
“Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.”

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