"We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance."

-- Jerry Spinelli

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“Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.”
“It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.”

Source : Archibald Alexander (2009). “Outlines of Moral Science”, p.264, Applewood Books
“The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”
“I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.”

Source : "Jude Law: 'I was a great champion of the human spirit. I lost that for a time'". Interview With Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.
“Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.”
“Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?”
“For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.”
“I developed a long time ago some habits. One of them is what I call "divert daily, withdraw weekly, and abandon annually." Divert daily is everyday you do something that's not work-related. You do something that relaxes you. Then you withdraw weekly. The Bible says every seven days you take a day off. And then abandon annually means you just go out and forget it all.”

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