"If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars."

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Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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“If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie , here's evidence to the contrary.”

Source : "Epic Movie (United States, 2007)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2007.
“The judges are fun because they bring different personalities. And it's also really exciting to work really hard all week and then have them either give really good praise or to give constructive criticism.”
“I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.”
“It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.”
“Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.”
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.”
“Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.”
“I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.”

Source : "Manolo Blahnik: 'There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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