"But I want you around even when I don't need you. â€”Jeremy Richards"

-- Julius Lester

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“He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his effort to achieve increasing production. Representing over a half of Japan's total population, the agriculture workers have become an invincible barrier against the advance of socialistic ideas which would relegate all to the indignity of state servitude.”
“Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.”

Source : Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.42, A&C Black
“When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.”
“The horn of dilemma of energy politics is what really drives concern about this energy in this country, at the gut level for most people, is high gas prices. And if you really want to fight global warming and try to reduce our carbon emissions, the cleanest, easiest, most rational way to do it would to make the price of gas even higher through very stiff gas prices.”
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back”

Source : The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money bk. 6, ch. 24 (1936)
“My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!”

Source : Sarojini Naidu, Makarand R. Paranjape (1996). “Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s”
“I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.”
“I think it's important to have professional lessons or advice.”

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