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“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”
Source : Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.”
Source : "BC Report Newsmagazine", January 11, 1999.
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“My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.”
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“Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.”
Source : Yiyun Li (2007). “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories”, p.151, Random House
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“When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.”
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“Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.”
Source : J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.21, Princeton University Press
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“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
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“Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.”
