"No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people."

-- Betty Smith

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“The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.”
“A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.”

Source : Rudolf Otto (1996). “Autobiographical and Social Essays”, p.72, Walter de Gruyter
“I love pork. I love a good BLT. I know that sounds horrible but I do. I'm a total foodie. I love cooking and I love traveling and I love finding new places to eat and new cuisines to eat. Don't be shocked if you see me munching down on a baby back rib.”
“I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.”

Source : Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”
“When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police force, who are in control of my life in many ways.”
“The only true source of inspiration is to be an inspiration.”
“Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.”
“I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'”

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