"It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names."

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Source : Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.39, Canongate Books

Yann Martel

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“Teenagers also sometimes think, 'What's the use? The world will soon be blown all apart and come to an end.' That feeling comes from fear, not from faith. No one knows the hour or the day (see D&C 49:7), but the end cannot come until all of the purposes of the Lord are fulfilled. Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.”
“Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.”
“Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.”
“Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.”
“You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.”
“If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.”

Source : "Megadeth Frontman Dave Mustaine Endorses Rick Santorum" by David Sessions, www.thedailybeast.com. February 15, 2012.
“I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.”
“The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.”

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