"When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself."

-- Charles Dickens

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“The reality is that there are half a billion kids in India, in villages, who have a pre-determined life. If they're very lucky and they're a gifted athlete, maybe they can compete for the Olympics, or maybe they can get into the military. But if you're not a gifted athlete, then you're going to end up working for your family and you're going to perpetuate what your family is. It's gotten to the point, in villages, where there's no hope. And the first spark of hope is when you ask yourself the question,"What gift did God give me that I can develop and use to better my life?"”
“The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.”

Source : "Citizen’s Book Club: Would Adam Smith Vote Obama?" by Lex Paulson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.
“Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.”
“Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.”
“When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.”
“Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.”
“And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.”

Source : Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.423, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hair-brush and told, "There you go." She'd stood there for years, blinking and befuddled, brushing the can with the brush.”

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