"To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions."

-- John Ruskin

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“Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.”
“I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.”
“Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.”
“In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.”
“The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me.”

Source : "T.J. Oshie: Five Things to Know About the U.S. Hockey Star" by Andrea Billups, people.com. February 15, 2014.
“Swallows and Amazons for-ever!”

Source : Arthur Ransome (2012). “Swallows and Amazons”, Random House
“Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.228, tredition
“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”

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