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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. - Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – Jessamyn West

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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. – Jessamyn West

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communication
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Jessamyn West
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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? – Jessamyn West

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Success
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The book borrower…proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures…as by his failure to read these books. – Walter Benjamin

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Books

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. – Author unknown

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Books

The literary man must needs be a thinking one, and every day he lives he becomes wiser—if wiser, then better—if better, then happier. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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Books

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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Books

Random Quotes

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace. – Kent Nerburn

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Peace

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. – Wole Soyinka

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Truth

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team. – Steve Ballmer

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Leadership

Carelessness is worse than a thieve. – Scottish Proverb

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Facts