Marriage is like democracy - ...

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn\'t really work, but it\'s all we\'ve been able to come up with.
Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.
 Shirley Hazzard

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.
 Shirley Hazzard
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
 Shirley Hazzard
I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.
 Shirley Hazzard
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.
 Shirley Hazzard