"All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen."

-- Roald Dahl

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“America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.”
“If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.”
“What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.”

Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.205, Litres
“We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this is crime on its highest level. It is affecting not only the security of the national parks, it is affecting the people in communities that live around the national parks. In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.”
“Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.”
“Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don't have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not.”
“It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.”
“We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of usâ€¦This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.”

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