"Parents want their kidsâ€™ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parentsâ€™ approval."

-- Elizabeth Kolbert

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“There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip.”

Source : "Why I pulled out of the TS Eliot poetry prize" by Alice Oswald, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.
“All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.”
“Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldnâ€™t, because there arenâ€™t enough skulls!”
“We should be cultivating our female workers. The truth of the matter is that women just see problems and solutions differently, and that's valuable.”

Source : "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.
“I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election”
“Issue a call to the young generation to get ready for the holy war and to prepare for that in Afghanistan because jihad in this time of crisis for Muslims is an obligation of all Muslims.”
“Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.”
“Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.”

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