"She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things-the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal."

-- Dan Simmons

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“If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.”
“The Age of Northeast Asia is fast approaching.”

Source : "Roh Moo-Hyun's Inauguration Speech". February 25, 2003.
“Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.”
“Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?”

Source : 1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.
“There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.”
“I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.”
“There is a society in the deepest solitude.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 729-31, The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), Chapter X, 1922.
“I stay out of the sunshine and away from people as much as possible.”

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