"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."

-- Jonathan Franzen

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“Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.”
“Be the flame, not the moth.”
“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”
“Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.”
“I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.”

Source : Samuel Pepys (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Pepys (Illustrated)”, p.2195, Delphi Classics
“The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.”

Source : John Webster, Alexander Dyce (1877). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.108
“I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.”

Source : "'This American Life,' en Espanol". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.
“For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.”

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