"Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames."

-- John Hancock

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“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”

Source : Frank Herbert (1986). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Berkley Trade
“I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.”

Source : "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.”
“My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.”
“A lot of it is "how do you work with people". How do you get people to work with you and do wonderful things.”
“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.”

Source : "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.
“Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be inverted. The journeys we make during the reading of a book trace out, in some way, the private spaces we inhabit. There are texts that will always be our dead-end streets; fragments that will be bridges; words that will be like the scaffolding that protects fragile constructions.”
“If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.”

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