"Man, that's the only kind of book I like Â– one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about."

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Source : Adam Rapp (2011). “Under the Wolf, Under the Dog”, p.117, Candlewick Press

Adam Rapp

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“When we think about living donor transplant, what we're banking on is the ability of the liver to regenerate itself. Now, it's not the same sort of regeneration we think about with the starfish where we cut off the arm and it grows a new arm. With the liver, what happens is the remaining liver gets bigger, and your body knows the size of the liver that it needs, and when it recognizes that there is not enough liver, it sends nutrients and signals to the liver and says "get bigger."”

Source : Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org
“It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise, and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.”

Source : "What We Need in Our Next President" by Mike Medavoy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2007.
“England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.”
“The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut?”
“I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: â€˜The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'”
“If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.”

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