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“I wonder if that's the difference between fathers and mothers. I'm friends with people who have kids that are like 5 and under, and they're still in that intense mother-bonding phase. It might just be that. Because the dads haven't changed.”

People Ifs Stills Might Kids Mother Father Differences Wonder Havens Changed Dad Intense Phases Bonding

Author:Jen Kirkman

“I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.”

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Author:Katherine Boo

“The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been officially changed to 'Gauteng.' (One of our friends has suggested that in view of this its inhabitants in the future should be referred to as Oranggautengs.) ... And now there is a move afoot to wreck the Kruger National Park, one of the wonders of the world, on the notion that a good bit of its land was 'taken from the blacks.' This idea is somewhat akin to giving Yellowstone Park back to the Blackfeet.”

“money-making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed the order of your being, and seared you through and up and down. Then only would he eventually leave you, but nothing of you except an exhausted wreck, lying prone and wondering who are you.”

Lying Order Wonder Changed Making Money Priests Exhausted Up And Down Wrecks Possessing

Book:The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays

Source: The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays

“It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.”

“For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it changed my personality, sometimes I wonder if it didn't damage my brain.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Sometimes Bigs Left Brain Wonder Changed Personality Damage Sometimes I Wonder Finishers

Author:Michael Lesy

“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”

Fear Wonder Changed Overcoming Overcoming Fear Clutter Changed My Life

Author:Richard Bach

“It's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few years. It made me wonder if the change was deliberate in any sense, or procedural, like when A.R. Ammons stuck an adding machine roll into his typewriter to squeeze his verses into shorter lines.”

Ifs Years Mind Made Lasts Moving Lines Interesting Wonder Changed Machines Stuck Verses Deliberate Typewriters

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person”

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Author:Jodie Foster