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“Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn't like to be ignored like this. It doesn't like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance.”
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“The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.”
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“A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to do it, so I only paid attention to those who told me that I could.”
Source : "On World Down Syndrome Day, Speaking Out on How Bullying Hurts and Kills Dreams" by Lauren Potter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2012.
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“We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.”
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“I did Polyester, and I dont regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.”
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“The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.”
Source : Margot Adler (2006). “Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America”, p.38, Penguin
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“Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding.”
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“A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,”
Source : "The Great Animal Orchestra". Book by Bernie Krause, March 19, 2012.