"ThereÂ´s my date, I said. "Fashionably late." Nora (p. 232)"

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Becca Fitzpatrick

“In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.”
“A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”
“Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.”
“I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.”
“I think that's something that investment banks have worried about for a long time and are continuing to worry about, but it's not an easy solution when you have lots of people betting the company's money, how do you really allocate those risks? How do you make sure that the people that take the risks are feeling the risks in an appropriate kind of fashion?”
“For me, Christianity is not a genre. It's faith. The Gospel is not a genre either. It's faith. I definitely understand the semantics of naming things to give them some kind of distinction but I think my faith is pretty distinct. If you want to call it hip hop, essentially it is. That's the art form.”
“I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.”
“I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 56), 1985.

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