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“I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.”
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“We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.”
Source : Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.129, Broadview Press
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“It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.”
Source : "The Luminaries". Book by Eleanor Catton, August 2013.
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“A good problem statement often includes what is known, what is unknown, and what is sought.”
Source : Edward Hodnett (1955). “The art of problem solving: how to improve your methods”, Harper & Brothers
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“We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.”
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“There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.”
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“Let's say you have $1,000,000 tied up in your little company and suddenly your advertising isn't working and sales are going down. And everything depends on it. Your future depends on it, your family's future depends on it, other people's families depend on it. Now, what do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the goddamned sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?”
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“God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.”