"Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures."

-- Jerry Spinelli

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“God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people... we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others.”

Source : Jomo Kenyatta's Speech in Nyeri, Kenya, July 26, 1952.
“Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com
“Lesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun.”
“Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.”

Source : "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
“A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.”
“People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.”
“When I was a TV director working on Judd Apatow's show Undeclared. I was surrounded by so many young people. People like Seth Rogen, who was 9 years old or something. It was just a ridiculous amount of talented young people. I started to think I'd like to see a young-love movie, but not one done in that glossy, Hollywood, high-concept manner we've become accustomed to. One that was, for lack of a better way of putting it, a little more ambiguous, '70s-style, where everyone was flawed, middle-class characters.”
“Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.”

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