"To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn."

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Source : Karen White (2007). “Learning to Breathe”, p.245, Penguin

Karen White

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“I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.”

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“I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.”

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“I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.”
“It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.”

Source : Guillaume Apollinaire (2010). “The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire”, p.94, Wesleyan University Press
“Generally there is Stigler's law of Eponymy that says that a scientific notion is never attributed to the right person; in particular, the law is not due to Stigler.”

Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Prologue, p. 15), 2006.
“Food, clothes and shelter have no politics.”
“I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.”

Source : Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”
“My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.”

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