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“One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too closely among society. For those of us who live for the freedom of such a lifestyle, that skin is dry and itchy and ill fitting. From my observances, that skin is much like a callus caused by the pure irritation of being forced to spend so much time with one's fellow man. Thank God I am spared such nonsense.”
Source : Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
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“I honestly think if I had made a ton of money as an actor, I wouldn't have done anything else. (Hah!) Then I turned to writing plays. If that paid me well, I don't know if I would have turned to TV. Or coaching. I've now devised a combination of things partly because I'm having fun, and partly because I'm piecing together a way to make a living.”
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“Good wares make good markets.”
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“My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.”
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“It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.”
Source : George F. Kennan (2012). “American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition”, p.118, University of Chicago Press
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“Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines.”
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“As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love, and want to marry, I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love”
Source : "Carrie Underwood: US country queen speaks out for gay marriage – but how will conservative fans take it?" by Guy Adams, www.independent.co.uk. June 8, 2012. 
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“I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.”
