"It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love."

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Source : Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.75, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”
“Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?”
“If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn't happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it's bitter.”
“I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things”
“One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.”
“I couldn't imagine not having clean water.”
“If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.”

Source : Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.130, Vintage
“People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.”

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