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Quotes by Author
"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
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"Empathy is not something we offer to our customers or our employees from nine to five. It is "a second by second, minute by minute service that we owe to everyone if we want to call ourselves a leader"."
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"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
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"Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the crowd through the extravagance of the expenditure. As it becomes an addiction, however, it might be cured, if the right medication is administered : humbleness and mindful discovery of the others. ['Buying now, dying later']"
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"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
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"Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory."
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"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
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"The only reason why our minds are controlled is due to the fact that we don't make the conscious effort to control what goes in them."
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"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."
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"Don't spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren't stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff."
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"It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please."
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"This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman."
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"Paco Fuentes,' Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary.The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat.Mrs. Peterson regards her new student over the glasses perched on her nose. 'Mr. Fuentes, don't think this class will be a piece of cake because your parents got lucky and developed a medication to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. Your father never did finish my class and he flunked one of my tests, although I have a feeling your mother was the one who should have failed. But that just means I'll expect extra from you."
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"With stillness comes the benediction of Peace."
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"If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?"
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"If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed."
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"Consider me your candy stripper... I mean striper."
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"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."
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"Some people sit at life' banquet table while others serve them."
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"He didn't like the way things were going.There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn."
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"If it looks like a cat, walks like a cat, and has whiskers like a cat, it's probably a damn cat. But if it eats your groceries, messes up your kitchen, and makes you want to rip out your hair by the roots, you either married it or gave birth to it."
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"Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture."
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"You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!"
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"People are afraid of change. Change is inevitable to life. Change actually has the mask of pushing us out of comfort zone. Every time we learn, go through life experiences our perception/Emotional chemistry is changing. Embrace change because we are becoming a more polished version of ourselves."
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"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."
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"When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently."
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"When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang."
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"We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts."
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"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance."
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