"But, she knew, you didnâ€™t have to marry your soulmate, and you didnâ€™t even have to marry an Interesting. You didnâ€™t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting."

-- Meg Wolitzer

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“We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation.”

Source : "The shame of our silence" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2006.
“The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Profits are the ultimate measure of how efficiently we provide customers with the best products for their needs. Profits are required to survive and grow.”
“They're [children] less forgiving. You have to be very conscious of the fact that they're not going to just accept things; they're going to question. They're going to move around if you bore them. They'll actually leave. So you really have to be on your toes.”
“I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.”
“The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.”
“Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.”
“I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.”

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