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“Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).”
Source : William Maxwell (1989). “The outermost dream: essays and reviews”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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“Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.”
Source : Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.135, The Floating Press
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“That diversity of production styles and diversity of lyrical structure - I miss that.”
Source : "Grandmaster Flash breaks down Netflix’s new series 'The Get Down'". Interview with Alan Light, www.motherjones.com. July 2016. 
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“Success depends on our using, and not opposing...”
Source : Thomas Troward (2015). “The Power in You: The Definitive Thomas Troward”, p.24, Penguin
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“Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.”
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“Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.”
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“I suppose you should her it from me that I met your mother" he smiled a litte sadly. "well. . . When I say met I mean one time I tried to kill her." "Do me a favor" Zach's voice was low and dark and dangerous. "Next time don't just try”
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“Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.”
Source : Victor Frederick Weisskopf, V. Stefan (1998). “Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists”, Springer Science & Business Media
