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“Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.”
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“There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There are people outside. The world does not end on the Fourth Level. There are people elsewhere. It took me two years to learn to apply the lesson - that neither does the world end with the Ship. If you want to accept life, you have to accept the whole bloody universe. The universe is filled with people, and there is not a single solitary spear carrier among them.”
Source : Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket
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“Branding adds spirit and a soul to what would otherwise be a robotic, automated, generic price-value proposition. If branding is ultimately about the creation of human meaning, it follows logically that it is the humans who must ultimately provide it.”
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“My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“It is the strength of any emotion, not necessarily its pleasantness, which makes a place important.”
Source : "West with the Sun".
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“I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.”
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“My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.”
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“Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.”
Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.48, Knopf Books for Young Readers