“Yes, but the main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.”
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”
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“During our endless search for the newest trends for the lowest prices, we become complicit in the forced-labor industry. Chinese manufacturers often believe they have no choice but to secretly outsource to gulags, because they cannot meet the global consumer demand for budget prices and the latest trends. Studies have shown it is precisely brands’ demands for lower prices, faster production, and fulfillment of unanticipated orders that compel factories to illegally subcontract work to places like labor camps.”
― Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
― Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Clockwork Angel
― Clockwork Angel
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