"I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy."

-- Kat Duff

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“[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!”
“Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.”
“Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.”
“I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.”

Source : "Anderson Cooper Tries Out Live Format With Jack 'Dr. Death' Kevorkian". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.businessinsider.com. April 16, 2010.
“Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.”
“How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world Iâ€™m certain I love?”
“Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.”

Source : "Chinese tennis fans tracking Li Na's French Open progress" by Gary Morley, edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2012.
“The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.”

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