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“The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.”
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“Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.”
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“The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.”
Source : Joseph Fourier (2007). “The Analytical Theory of Heat (Unabridged)”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.”
Source : "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015. 
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“Things may not go to plan, but the unexpected throws up experiences and opportunities you had never dreamed of. I didn't get into Oxford the first time. I was absolutely heartbroken. Instead of going anywhere else I took a year out and reapplied. I wish I'd had some kind of framework for that year out, instead I worked in a Virgin Megastore. But looking back it taught me a lot, and meant my university experience was different, not worse. In the end, your grades aren't as important as the people you meet, and you can meet them anywhere.”
Source : "Ask John: university advice from comedian John Robins". The Telegraph interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 16, 2017.
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“Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.”
Source : Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
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“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.”
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“He that seeketh anything else but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.”
