"The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it."

-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.”
“The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.”
“Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.”

Source : Jonathan Stroud (2004). “The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two: Golem's Eye”, Disney-Hyperion
“Whatever your job, it is important if it is what God wants you to do.”
“Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.”
“I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.”
“Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.5, Cambridge University Press
“Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.”

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