"I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience."

-- Hector Hugh Munro

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“I didnâ€™t write the rules. Why would I follow them?”
“I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!”
“I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.”
“I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.”
“To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found in the mineral kingdom, is the proper object of a THEORY OF THE EARTH.”

Source : John Playfair, James George Playfair (1822). “Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth”, p.20
“There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.”

Source : "Interview with Rep. Anthony Weiner". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 27, 2011.
“Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.”
“If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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