"No mother, no father, no Sight."

-- Garth Nix

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“It's humiliating to have to explain your value.”

Source : "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.
“Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.10, Cambridge University Press
“A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom.”

Source : "Oceans apart". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.
“A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the year - on the condition that if he didn't succeed, he would be put to death at the end of the year. "Within a year," the man explained later, "the king may die, or I may die, or the horse may die. Furthermore, in a year, who knows? Maybe the horse will learn to fly." My philosophy is like that man's. I take the long-range view.”
“When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.”
“I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.”
“The honour is overpaid,When he that did the act is commentator.”

Source : James Shirley, Alexander Dyce (1833). “Honoria and Mammon. Chabot, Admiral of France. The acardia. The triumph of peace. A contention for honour and riches. The triumph of beauty. Cupid and death. The contention of Ajax and Ulysses, &c. Poems”, p.380
“You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a Jewish forebear. We may have authentic gentiles in our midst: these single protests are of no account; they are extreme and irrelevant variations.”

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