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“It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.”
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“Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.”
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“Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.”
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“We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
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“Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.”
Source : "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.
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“I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.”
Source : "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" by Frank McCourt and Erin Gruwell, (p. 410), 2007.
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“I never set out to be a businessman”
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“Concentrate on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.”
Source : Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom, Robert C. Larson (1988). “The best of Ted Engstrom on personal excellence and leadership”, Here's Life Pub