"I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England."

-- Alan Bradley

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“Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.”

Source : Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.71, University of Michigan Press
“I now know that me giving my all and giving my best will result in my needs being taken care of and provided for.”
“Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.”
“Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!”

Source : "Actor Annie Wersching: Losing her mom and the curative powers of a good night's sleep". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The church doesnâ€™t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.”
“We are really the victims of our own problems”
“Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.”
“If you are just having unusual experiences and feeling specialâ€“especially if you feel better than everybody elseâ€“I think that is a dangerous thing.”

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