It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.
– Sonia Sotomayor
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- Slow-slow-quick-quick-slow went her heart.-œDamn, I love the tango,- he whispered, tickling her ear. – Ophelia London
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- He is quick witted, yes! Astute big time & level headed in opinion. It is my firsthand judgment of a man. – Parul Wadhwa
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- For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards. – John Mole
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- A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil. – Criss Jami
- All my memories are things I gave away, traded for new days after days after days… – Brenna Ehrlich
- There are good days and hard days for me. Don’t let the hard days win ~Mor ~A Court of Mist and Fury – Sarah J Maas
- King John was not a good man,He had his little ways.And sometimes no one spoke to him,For days and days and days. – AA Milne
- Suddenly, it seems obvious to me: Only fantasy books can make sense of the skewed reality in which I live. – David B
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- We are half awake and semi conscious. – Debasish Mridha
- All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful. – Ian Fleming
- The Postmodernists’ tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. – Christopher Hitchens
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- I’d rather be a semi intelligent thinker and doer…than a highly intelligent thinker.. or an unintelligent doe – Waqas Rabbani
- The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled words, the layers of air in the semi-vowels. – Osip Mandelstam
- Life do your worst; we are plump of knee and mild of eye, we are douce, glib and blithe; we inherit the semi, while others inherit the wind. – Hilary Mantel
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- There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
- Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence. – Jiddu Krishnamurti