"There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them."

-- Bernard Malamud

“People always ask what I would have done if I weren't doing what I'm doing. And I say I'd [still] be in fashion or in beauty. It's such a dream come true now because I have the ability to go into home [goods] and accessories as well.”
“I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us.”

Source : Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco
“Massive, massive mentality. The mental strength, you've just got to have that because you get a lot of stick, as a goalkeeper you're the last line of defence. When a goal goes in everyone looks at you, you've got to be able to deal with that. If you make a mistake, it could be a bad mistake, how are you going to recover? Are you going to react positively or are you just going to cave in?”
“What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.”

Source : William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”
“Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Donâ€™t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Canâ€™t Decide My Future”
“In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.”
“All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.”
“Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Highway of Eternity”, p.158, Open Road Media

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