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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack o

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. – Ian Mcewan

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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. – Ian Mcewan

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Faith
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They werent able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively. – Ian Mcewan

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Education
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, wed all be millionaires. – Abigail Van Buren

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I have relationships with people Im working with, based on our combined interest. It doesnt make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience. – Harrison Ford

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I didnt fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience – to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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A womans life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. – Wallis Simpson

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The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. – Rosalyn S. Yalow

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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. – Omar Khayyam

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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? – Orison Swett Marden

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Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping. – Nat King Cole

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