"There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket."

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Samuel Beckett

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“The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.”
“To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.”
“I was born with my moustache and, no, I've never been tempted to shave it off. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about my face and, like Gilbert and Sullivan's Katisha, my best feature is my left shoulder-blade.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
“Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized.”
“What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.”

Source : J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.80, InterVarsity Press
“The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'American dream' also means a democratic political system in which most people feel they can affect public decisions and elect officials who will speak for them. In recent years, the dream has been fading.”
“There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.”
“I thought I'd have time to become a movie star. And it didn't happen, did it? We're still waiting. And they're saying, 'Don't hold your breath, kid.' Even movie stars can't get movies, you know what I mean?”

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