"Push something in someoneâ€™s face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want."

-- Frances Hardinge

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“I find it extraordinary that I'm being told I can't trust you the voter to get a government in to protect workers rights and that we need Brussels to defend you, the euro is a broken project we are going to pay, no you are going to pay out of your taxes one bailout out of another and the European union does not protect your jobs.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.”

Source : 'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Legacy'
“When Europeans came to the New World the first thing they said is, well, Indians don't appreciate property. They're savage. They're backwards. They're uncivilized. ... Nothing could be farther from the truth. Tribes have very clear conceptions of their traditional boundaries, they maintain their rights and their claim sovereignty over the lands according to their own honored traditions and tribal elders. And so, you can go out there on the reservation, and there might be a reservation boundary established by the United States. But then there's traditional land boundaries.”
“It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.”
“We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters.”
“I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.”
“The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way.”

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