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“It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.”
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“I really support criticism as a craft and as a vocation. People who devote as much time to thinking about sound through writing as I do practicing and forming it, the whole system of journalism seems to not yield rewards sustainable as a craft. So few can spend enough time to be serious about it and approach it with confidence and a kind of depth. And that's good on one level, because you have some leveling, that's kind of maybe leveled the petty fiefdoms of undeserving people but it's also made it hard to make a living as a writer.”
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“Do what makes you happy! It's that simple.”
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“I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds.”
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“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.”
Source : Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.161, Oxford University Press
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“So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.”
Source : Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the United Auto Workers, Vol. 22, 1970.
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“I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,”
Source : Twitter post from Sep 19, 2013 
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“Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.”
