"Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky."

-- Mark Haddon

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“The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.”

Source : "In brief: Prince Caspian confimed as second Narnia movie", www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2006.
“The Lord does not need your tithing, as far as He is concerned, but you need it for your growth, spiritually and temporally, that the windows of heaven may be opened and the Spirit of the living God given to you.”
“You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.”
“Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.”
“I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.”
“As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.”
“I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.”
“Good servants frequently make good masters.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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