"This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework."

-- Ben Aaronovitch

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“Make a mark; don't be part of the living dead.”

Source : "Terry Matthews: A well-connected Celt" by David Gow, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2000.
“The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.”
“There is always room for at least two truths.”
“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”
“Given the chance, people will buy from people who care.”
“Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.”

Source : " Angel Haze: 'Right now, no one can beat me'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.
“I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.”

Source : On seeing the first Reformed Parliament, in Sir William Fraser 'Words on Wellington' (1889) p. 12
“The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms.”

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