"Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth."

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Source : "Dear Austen". Book by Nina Bawden, 2005.

Nina Bawden

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“At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.”
“His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.”

Source : Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Charlie All Night”, p.87, HQN Books
“Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we donâ€™t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someoneâ€™s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesnâ€™t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of anotherâ€™s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other”
“Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.”
“To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.”
“A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.”

Source : Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.158, University of Chicago Press
“The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty”
“In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as "natural" are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you "market laws are laws of nature", what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted.”

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