"[...] and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly, but it's just something I like to do when things aren't going well. Because what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first."

-- Hugh Laurie

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“Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal ...”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1999). “The Collected Short Works, 1920-1954”, p.259, U of Nebraska Press
“Finding a title for a book is something that I work really hard at ... So, in Salt, I realized that the book was a lot about how people live on the earth together and who has access to the resources of the earth. So salt was a very specific thing that people needed, but it's also symbolic because of the way it comes out of the earth.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.”

Source : "New Again: Salt-N-Pepa". Interview with Adrian Rapazzini and Mary Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 30, 2014.
“There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.”
“A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true human and happy life, for it is filled with concerns that are as deep as life, as wide as the whole world, and as far reaching as eternity. It is only when we have consented to love, and have agreed to forget ourselves, that we can find our fulfillment. This fulfillment will come unperceived and mysterious like the grace of God, but we will recognize it and it will be recognized in us.”
“The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.”
“When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.”
“If you want it and you dream about it...there's nothing that's going to stop you.”

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