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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

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We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. "Has a European feel" Susan said."That sounds terrific" I said. "Can I have one?"Susan grinned at me. "How did you ever get to be so big without growing up?" she said."Iron self-control" I said. Robert B. Parker
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. Thomas Beecham
Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work. Richard Dean Anderson
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. E. Joseph Cossman
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. William Glasser
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time. Gale Norton
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I still feel like I'm doing this for the same reasons and working just as hard. Scott Wolf
Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything. Stephen King
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it. Ben Elton
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me. Toni Morrison
When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes. Len Wein
Martin Amis quote: "Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit."
Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit. Martin Amis
Vicente Fox quote: "I am the guardian of power, not its owner."
I am the guardian of power, not its owner. Vicente Fox
The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Oscar Wilde