"I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour."

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Source : Nancy Springer (2009). “The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline: An Enola Holmes Mystery”, p.44, Penguin

Nancy Springer

#Witty Quotes #Kind Quotes #Humour Quotes

“It seems to me that we learn the most not when we look for a certain answer, but when we allow questions to naturally guide us to an outocme, often an outcome that we have not planned or predicted. My goal...is to live the questions.”
“The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.”
“As for another profession ... I suppose I'd manage a global-macro hedge fund. I love that kind of stuff. Weird, I know, but I find it fascinating.”
“I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.”
“The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.”
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.”

Source : Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.13, Lulu.com
“What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.”
“The sign brings customers.”

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