"When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters."

-- Robert Baden-Powell

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“I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.”

Source : Merrill Markoe (2006). “Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel”, p.208, Villard
“In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of the Spanish Steps, and the ruins smelled like cat pee because of all the strays. The same thing happened in Prague, where I'd been yearning for some of the bohemianism of The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But no, there were no fabulous artists, no guys who looked remotely like a young Daniel Day-Lewis. I saw this one mysterious-looking guy reading Sartre in a cafe, but then his cell phone rang and he started talking in aloud Texan twang.”
“Women alone always order sole. It means something.”
“I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.”
“I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.”
“Users scan a page looking for trigger words. If they find a trigger word, they click on it but if they donâ€™t find it, they go to search. Thatâ€™s the way it works on 99% of sites, although Amazon is an exception. Thatâ€™s because Amazon has done a great job of training users to know that absolutely nothing on the home page is of any use.”
“Because we spent so much time in the writer's room, not even talking about where it goes, but just who the people are in our world, we could find all those unexpected moments and twists and turns that we didn't even see ourselves.”
“Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.”

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