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Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is… — Zora Neale Hurston
It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole… — Frank Bruno
There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you… — Jim Carrey
My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well. — Sarah Lancashire
A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is… — Christina Stead
If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing. I turn the… — Gail Kelly
One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands… — Hazel Hawke
Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week. — E. W. Howe
Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy… — K.J. Parker
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than… — Paul Hawken
A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of demands. The momentum… — Van Jones
Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't… — William H. Calvin
If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject… — Sheila Walsh
Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is… — Thomas Dolby
The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be… — William Butler Yeats
Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off. — Paulo Coelho
That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in… — Nikola Tesla
To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite… — Elizabeth David
Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up… — Brett Favre
More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and… — George Saunders

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