"They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids never lie playfully. They lie as if their lives depended on it."

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Source : Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.81, Macmillan

Ellen Potter

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“My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.”

Source : "Aging" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.
“The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing that makes the arm stronger.”
“The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.”
“I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.”

Source : "Edward Zander, Chairman and CEO of Motorola". Interview with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2006.
“I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.”
“There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.”
“The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security”
“We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.”

Source : "The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991". Book by Eric J. Hobsbawm, 1994.

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