"Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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“You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.”
“That for me is what intrigues me the most about feature films. It's not like the little kind of esoteric projects that you and your friends get but how do you make something that has a universal appeal. Those are the movies that intrigue me the most.”

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“I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.”

Source : John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”
“Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.”
“Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on lifeâ€”but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.”

Source : Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.23, Hachette UK
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”
“I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence.”
“To control the future requires the control of education and of the child. Hence, for Christians to tolerate statist education, or to allow their children to be trained thereby, means to renounce power in society, to renounce their children, and to deny Christ's Lordship over all of life.”

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