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Emily Barton

"[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these other things." He's actually saying that they're all of equal merit, and in many cases, that work in the genres, or work that draws from the genres is more entertaining for readers, since it is our job to entertain people."

-- Emily Barton

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“This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.”
“The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.”

Source : J. Arthur Thomson (2008). “The Outline of Science, First Volume”, p.185, Wildside Press LLC
“Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.”
“The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.”
“I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.”
“One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.”
“Entitlement never wins Championships, Investment wins Championships.”

Source : Jay Bilas (2013). “Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court”, p.78, Penguin
“It is worth noting that virtually every alternative energy source we have - solar, wind, nuclear, and battery and fuel cell technologies for storage - resulted from public innovation and R&D, not private. The problem is that we haven't done enough of it, and we have done it inconsistently.”

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