"Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will remember you in that. And we both see it has our job to make District 12 tributes unforgettable,' says Cinna. I'll be naked for sure, I think. 'So rather than focus on the coal mining itself, we're going to focus on the coal,' says Cinna. Naked and covered in black dust, i think. 'And what do we do with coal? We burn it,' says Cinna. 'You're not afraid of fire, are you, Katniss?' He sees my expression and grins."

-- Suzanne Collins

#Jobs Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Dust Quotes

“When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.”

Source : "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.
“It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall.”
“Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.”
“Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.96, Da Capo Press
“Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.”

Source : "Dr. Heidenhoff's Process". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 11, 1880.
“To me, the definition of sexy - at any age - is strength and confidence.”
“Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.”
“Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.”

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