"You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love."

-- Agatha Christie

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“A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.”
“Having the last name Kalitta didn't make me a racer, but it definitely makes me want to be a winner.”
“Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”

Source : Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A thesis has to be presentable... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you will do later on better things and then it will be of little moment. If you don't succeed in the sciences, it doesn't matter at all.”
“And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.”

Source : "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.
“When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious.”

Source : Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.
“I never went to college, so I went to the library.”
“The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.”

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