"Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough's army, than to think they'd been alive a year ago. It was as if all the other wars had distilled themselves into this war, and that made it something you almost can't challenge. It's like a very deep voice, saying; 'Run along, little man, be glad you've survived"

-- Pat Barker

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“On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy Krueger. Granuaile MacTiernan”
“We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.”
“The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy”
“An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.”

Source : Andrew Taylor Still, George Van O'Linda Webster (1935). “Sage Sayings of Still: Selected from the Writings of Dr. A.T. Still; with a Historical Sketch of Osteopathy and an Appreciation of Dr. Still”
“Carson is an old family name, though my grandma used to watch Johnny all the time and was crazy about him.”
“The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.”
“Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same.”
“Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken”

Source : Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland (1995). “Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland”

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