"Nobody had told me I was common."

-- Ned Vizzini

“I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.”
“There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder”
“Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.”
“When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up. When such change occurs, the quality of your adaptation to your old habitat is irrelevant, and any competitive advantage you might have had may be eliminated at a stroke.”
“If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere”
“I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 3, 1895.
“We must change the culture of politics first.”
“To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.”

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