Category: writer
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis
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Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
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We must realise that man’s nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
H. P. Lovecraft
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The big picture doesn’t just come from distance; it also comes from time.
Simon Sinek
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I like books that don’t give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
Zadie Smith
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As we’ve seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities – and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.
Michelle Obama
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Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
Simon Sinek
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My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.
Deepak Chopra
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George Eliot