"If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don't teach me to read, and you don't give me a computer stick I can push around with my nose to point at the next letter I wish typed. So whose fault is it that I am what I am?"

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Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

Garth Stein

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“The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.”
“Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.”

Source : "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.
“He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.”
“The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you...”

Source : Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs
“It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.”
“Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.”
“Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.
“I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons.”

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