"Fight your battles with words, not fists"

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Source : Ann Martin, Ann M. Martin (2012). “Belle Teal”, p.111, Scholastic Inc.

Ann M. Martin

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“What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.”
“Donâ€™t be silly. Loving is easy. Itâ€™s finding someone to love you back thatâ€™s hard.”
“In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.”
“Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.”
“Everyone has a private self and a public self.”

Source : "Kevin Conroy Gets Vocal in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 24, 2009.
“You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.”
“The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like manner, be ultimately forced to admit that aerial flight is one of that great class of problems with which men can never cope... I do not claim that this is a necessary conclusion from any past experience. But I do think that success must await progress of a different kind from that of invention.”
“We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.”

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