Christina Stead Quotes
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The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states is extremely limited.
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In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.
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His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
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I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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People are hungry for God. What a terrible meeting it would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.
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There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.
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An organization is great if you have a clear vision to be able to make it powerful. If you don't, an organization can kind of sap energy that could go elsewhere.
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Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.
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Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
