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“I've probably tried every fad diet in the world.”
Source : "Jenna Aks: Have You Ever Tried A Fad Diet?" by Jenna Ushkowitz, www.seventeen.com. January 30, 2012.
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“One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over the rough ground, whispered: 'How can you bring yourself to kill such beautiful, darling children? Have you no heart at all?' One old man, as he passed me, hissed: 'Germany will pay a heavy penance for this mass murder of the Jews.' His eyes glowed with hatred as he said this. Nevertheless he walked calmly into the gas-chamber.”
Source : "Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess". Book by Rudolf Höss, p. 150, 2000.
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“There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.”
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“If you live in your senses, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you’ll never need a greeting card to make you remember.”
Source : Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.113, Penguin
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“Grant us the wil1 to fashion as we feel, Grant us the strength to labor as we know, Grant us the purpose, ribbed and edged with steel, To strike the blow.”
Source : John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”
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“A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.”
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“Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.”
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“Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.”
Source : Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.247, Anchor