"A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one."

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Emily Barton

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“It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.”
“If, however, you take a moment to observe how you actually feel immediately after you criticise someone, you'll notice that you will feel a little deflated and ashamed, almost like you're the one who has been attacked. The reason this is true is that when we criticise, it's a statement to the world and to ourselves, "I have a need to be critical." This isn't something we are usually proud to admit.”
“Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our souls, hovers in the back of our minds like a faint memory. We may fear certain realities, like death; we worry about vague possibilities. Worry distracts us more than paralyzes us. It is like a leaky faucet we never get around to fixing.”
“We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.”

Source : "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. December 31, 2003.
“There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.”
“But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. â€œFight in the way of God those who fight you,â€ the Quran says, â€œbut do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressorâ€ (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: â€œPermission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressedÂ ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord'Â â€ (22:39; emphasis added).”
“I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.”
“We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.”

Source : "Economist says U.S. inequality reaching "spectacular" heights". Interview with Alain Sherter, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2014.

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