"As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?"

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Megan Whalen Turner

#Boys Quotes #Men Quotes #Years Quotes

“Murderers very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.”
“You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.”
“When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.”
“But as much as I am personally proud for winning five championships, I'm equally proud just being part of a women's division that has gotten so much better with all these great athletes here.”
“I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.”
“We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.”
“Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral insufficient. I'm trying to give you back your brain, which they took away from you in schools and in your upbringing. I'm trying to show you how the world works. So if you want a better world, you have to get up off your ***** and make it better”
“At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.”

Source : Tony Blair's speech to Faithworks, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2005.

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