"If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody."

-- Mercedes Lackey

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“Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.”

Source : Patricia Cornwell (2010). “The Body Farm: Scarpetta 5”, p.224, Simon and Schuster
“All we are asked to bear we can bear.”
“Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.”
“What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.”
“If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ... But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.”

Source : "The puzzle of motivation". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2009.
“Invest in everything, attach to nothing.”
“You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.”
“I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?”

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