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“Sweet are the uses of adversity”
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“no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.”
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“There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.”
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“That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.”
Source : "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon". Book by Grace Lin, www.today.com. July 1, 2009.
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“The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.”
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“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.”
Source : Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.103, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.”
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“Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they might learn in their first twelve years of schooling.”
Source : Blase Bonpane (2004). “Common Sense for the Twenty-first Century”