"Ive been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform."

-- Benjamin Booker

“People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important”
“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “Fer-de-Lance”, p.3, Crimeline
“The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers to prove their case. They have not proved their case...It's just simply gibberish. The fact is, there's no theory for it, there are no observational data for it. It's been tested and tested over the centuries.”
“My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.”
“Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.”

Source : Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster
“It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!”
“the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.”
“The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not give them a tribal structure in which to accomplish both in balance. It used to be that the tribe formed a boy's character while the peer group existed primarily to test and befriend that character. Nowadays, boys' characters are often formed in the peer group. Mentors and intimate role models rarely exist to show the growing boy in any long-term and consistent way how both to serve a group and flourish as an independent self.”

Source : Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.71, Penguin

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