"Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper."

-- Michael Cunningham

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“Thatâ€™s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing Godâ€™s watching you, knowing that He knows youâ€™re trying to be strong to please Him.”
“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.”

Source : "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, I. 12,
“It's hard not to sell out because once, you know, I grew up with working-class parents who definitely, definitely would be disappointed if I didn't take particular jobs being like, "What are you talking about? I would have worked years for that money in like, actual physical labor." So there's a privilege to not selling out. You already have to be in a position where you can look at that money and not care about it.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Vlad hated doing the paperwork as much as he did when a human employee quit, which was why they'd both made a promise not to eat quitters just to avoid the paperwork. As Tess had pointed out, eating the staff was bad for marale and made it so much harder to find new employees.”
“My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.”

Source : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.25, Random House
“If you don't believe in yourself how will somebody else believe in you?”
“The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.”

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