"The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss."

-- Terry Brooks

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“Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.”
“I was seventeen and the star of my high school play. I was supposed to kiss my leading man, but I couldn't stand the guy. I really didn't want to kiss him. All during rehearsals, I refused to kiss him. Then my drama teacher told me, "If you don't kiss him on opening night, you'll flunk drama class. So I kissed him, and that was my first kiss.”
“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of lawâ€”a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”

Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.
“Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.”
“Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.”

Source : "Joel Salatin: Folks, This Ain’t Normal". Interview with Kristin Wartman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2011.
“A slave stands infront of Allah on two occasions. The first during salah, and secondly on the Day of Judgment. Whoseover stands correctly in the first, the second standing will be made easier for him. And whosoever, disregards the first standing, the second standing will be extremely difficult.”
“I remember I had had one woman who had three or four kids, and some of them were having problems. I said, 'Maybe you could go write somewhere else, away from your house.' And sure enough, all kinds of wonderful stuff emerged. She was keeping too much charge of herself because she couldn't stop being a mother when she was in the house. You have to find your own way of letting loose, if you're one of those people.”
“Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.”

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