"I say, let's learn more and then speculate."

--

Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.122, Macmillan

Vernor Vinge

“These haters can't hold me back”

Source : "Rick Ross Leaves Drama Behind On Bet Hip Hop Awards Stage" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. October 9, 2012.
“The fascination with the music stayed with me for years and I wanted to find out why I liked it so much and to learn the grammar of it, and that's why I tried to write the sheet music down. Writing it down gave me some ideas of other versions of the music and I wrote the first string quartets and piano pieces based on transcriptions.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“No one loves the man whom he fears.”
“Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend has a crush on...nor shalt thou try sticking thy best friend in the chest with a sharp hunk of wood.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.125, Penguin
“I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.”
“I'm really happy in my life.”
“Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.”

Source : "Tools Of Speech". Book by Maturin M. Ballou, archive.org. 1886.
“The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.”

Source : Dorothy Richardson (1905). “The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl”, p.45, University of Virginia Press

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