"Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it."

-- Jostein Gaarder

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“Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.”
“I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”
“You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.”
“It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.”
“But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.”
“I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.”
“Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.”

Source : Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.84, A&C Black
“I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.”

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