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"How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective."
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"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."
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"Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources."
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"Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be."
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"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."
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"For it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown."
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"The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life."
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"What you see is what suffices you."
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"If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car."
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"You have to learn to look at things in a new way."
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"Losing your job makes you come face to face with the greatest wealth."
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"So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is."
Character
"You have to defend your honor. And your family."
Family
"A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized."
Writing
"I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political."
Work
"How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective."
Perspective
"When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before."
Life
"I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy."
Time
"If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect."
Business
"Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that."
Experience
"To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently."
Thought
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