"I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying."

-- Chris Vance

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“I can tell you what women need in general. They need respect and love. They need to be able to trust your word and to be able to confide in you. So often, we can't care for ourselves in this world, so we need protection and provision.”

Source : Tracie Peterson (2010). “Twilight's Serenade (Song of Alaska Book #3)”, p.160, Bethany House
“Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.”

Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway
“You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes”
“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
“Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”
“History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick”
“All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.”
“The gardener knows how to turn garbage into compost. Therefore our anger, sadness, and fear is the best compost for our compassion.”

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