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“If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.”
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“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
Source : "Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania". P. 38. Book by John Woolf Jordan, 1915.
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“It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.”
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“Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.”
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“There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.”
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“I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.”
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“Katsa didn't think a person should thank her for not causing pain. Causing joy was worthy of thanks, and causing pain worthy of disgust. Causing neither was neither, it was nothing, and nothing didn't warrant thanks.”
Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.”