"Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy."

-- Jim Talent

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“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”
“If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.”

Source : John D Barrow (2014). “The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series”, p.33, Basic Books
“Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah!”

Source : George Armstrong Custer's last words, June 25, 1876.
“When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.”
“When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.”
“A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.”
“If you can help anybody even a little, be glad.”
“The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.”

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