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"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit."
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"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."
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"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."
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Personal Development
"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."
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Personal Development
"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."
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Personal Development
"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
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"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."
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"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."
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Personal Development
"What is easy is seldom excellent."
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"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."
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"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
Retirement
"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
Opinion
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
Family
"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world."
Nation
"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."
Opinion
"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
Friendship
"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."
Time
"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
Family
"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."
Family
"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."
Diplomacy
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