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“I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.”
“There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or the druggist, or the doctor, or even a Mah Jong partner, but the moment one belongs to the theatrical profession, the public usually feels cheated unless it knows one's inmost thoughts of love.”
“Twitter? No, I'd rather use phone and texts.”
“Material that might be illegal is such a minuscule part of what is available that we have to remember and I mean not only librarians but everybody has to remember not to let it overshadow the incredible wealth of information that is available in this medium.”

Source : "Easy Access?" by Spencer Michels, "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", August 7, 1997.
“The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.”
“No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.”
“I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training.”
“What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.210

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