"Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection."

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Source : Francine Pascal (2001). “Sam”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

Francine Pascal

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“I couldn't have gotten this far without my beautiful parents. I'm also very lucky to have the best friends that I do.”

Source : "Hanging with Mean Girls 2 Nicole Anderson". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. January 25, 2011.
“Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.”
“It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any Government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to re-write the lexicon. It will not do.”

Source : "To an understanding of marriage as merely the end-point of romance". Daily Hansard - Debate, publications.parliament.uk. February 5, 2013.
“The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“My beloved young friends, determine to serve one another. Opportunities for Christian acts of service do not always come at convenient times. Listen to the spirit when your flesh is weak. For truly the Master said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25:40). The blessings are tenfold when we do those good, kindly acts of Christian service when it is inopportune or not convenient.”
“Besides, old ladies are always right. That's how they get to be so old. It's one of those things.”
“In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.”
“Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward balancing on that tightrope: not too contrived, not too rambling; does what I'm saying about the world below me actually add up to anything? Other writers pay attention to these things as they write the first draft. Either way, an awareness of the macro and micro levels of theme can provide one more tool for thinking about what you should write, and how.”

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