"Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and I make my choice in a mood of exalted luck, browsing among them like a cow in sweetest pasture. For life is continuous as long as they wait to be read--these inked paths opening into the future, page after page, every book its own receding horizon. And I hold them, one in each hand, a curious ballast weighing me here to earth."

-- Linda Pastan

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“I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in the countries of Eastern Europe, will become increasingly powerful against the unco-ordinated, planless society in which the West is living at present.”
“We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.”
“High in the sky is a bird on a wing Please carry me with you Far far away from the mad rushing crowd Please carry me with you”

Source : "Song: 'Island of Dreams'". 1961.
“It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And the toy manufacturer's and the game people. One of the problems with International Comic Con is that tickets go on sale for the next year's event and the place is full of thousands and thousands of kids who have scraped together every dime to get admittance because they want to get all the freebies.”
“What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our most basic opportunity to glorify God. That's what your role in His story looks like day in and day out. Instead of waiting to be offered a new role, play the current one well.”
“It was almost like I was in the army.”
“Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.”

Source : Stephen Leacock, (2013). “The Boy I Left Behind Me”, p.79, Read Books Ltd
“Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.”

Source : "With synergy, differences are celebrated, provided you have the energy" by D. Murali in "The Hindu", July 15, 2005.

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