"A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]"

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“I'm not really a person who loves things that are surreal or not grounded in real life or reality. I like that - I want to find something that I can relate to and then maybe do a little bit more and embellish.”
“Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.”

Source : Alexis De Veaux (1974). “Spirits in the street”
“The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.”
“Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement. The rivers and the rocks, the seas and the continents, have been changed in all their parts; but the laws which direct those changes, and the rules to which they are subject, have remained invariably the same.”

Source : John Playfair (1822). “Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth”, p.415
“I gained another friend.”
“The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation.”
“I have no regrets about being 'Doctor Who'. It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.”
“I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.”

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