"You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time."

-- Eoin Colfer

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“I'm so very happy to be here, ... My lifelong dream is to win, and I was accustomed to winning before I got to Cincinnati. From Bantam League, to middle school, high school and at Auburn, I was always on winning teams. I just want to win again.”
“The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.”
“You must learn to respect," Papa said. But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.”

Source : Lawrence Hill (2008). “Someone Knows My Name: A Novel”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company
“Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.”
“One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.”
“When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences.”
“My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.”
“I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.”

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