"When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?"

-- Tom Stoppard

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“It has been calculated thatÂ one marginal win is worth $7 millionÂ andÂ we canÂ increaseÂ that by five percentÂ each yearÂ to figure out the value the NationalsÂ can expect to receive from Scherzer.”
“I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.”
“A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.”

Source : John Enoch Powell, Rex Collings (1992). “Reflections”
“The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.”

Source : Angus Buchan (2011). “Faith Like Potatoes: The story of a farmer who risked everything for God”, p.167, Monarch Books
“I feel young, but my body doesn't agree.”
“I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.”
“Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or a book by her silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs; if thou art not worth more than the world can make thee, thy Redeemer had a bad pennyworth, or thou an uncurious Redeemer.”
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

Source : Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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