"She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use."

-- Elvis Costello

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“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”
“Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.”
“And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And thatâ€™s my opinion, expressed as politely as possible.”

Source : "Videogames embrace gay characters" by Naomi Alderman, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2011.
“Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides...A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.”
“You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.”

Source : Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan
“The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.”

Source : Address in Reply to His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, hansard.millbanksystems.com. November 01, 1950.
“Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.45, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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