"We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock."

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Source : "Queen's Christmas message - full text", www.theguardian.com. December 25, 2013.

Queen Elizabeth II

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“I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.”
“The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It has been so in the time that preceded the fall of the Roman Empire, when Augustine of Hippo delineated the features of a new spiritual civilization; in the age of religious wars, when Descartes and Hobbes established the principles of modern science and politics; and at the turn of the French Revolution, interpreted by Kant and Hegel as an event destined to change the history of the world.”
“My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.”
“He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full of pretty people who acted like total freaks. I blame the local water supply. Which was why I drank bottled water.”
“She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.”
“I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.”
“In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.”

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