"A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity."

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Paul Lockhart

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“Nothing about economic growth in the United States over the course of the past 40, 50 years, during which time this has been continually happening, would indicate that we are being harmed in an overall sense by this.”
“When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.”
“I have always been ready to fight anybody out there, anytime, anywhere. I will knock them all over. My talent speaks for itself.”
“The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order,”
“To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.”
“She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky.”

Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”, p.182, Penguin UK
“What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.”
“The will to disbelieve is the strongest deterrent to wider horizons.”

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