"Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort."

-- Robert Lipsyte

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“Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs”, p.58
“The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.”
“We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.”

Source : Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.220, Hachette UK
“Happiness is like coke â€” something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.”
“Nobody's more important than the team.”
“of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.”
“I choose what I believe, and say nothing. For I am not as simple as I may seem.”
“The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution-the principle of life. He is an agitator, a disturber of the peace-quick, impatient, positive, restless and disquieting. He is the creative spirit of life working in the the soul of man.”

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