"Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree."

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Source : Dorothy Dunnett (1972). “The Ringed Castle”, Vintage

Dorothy Dunnett

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“I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 percent. I've definitely been guilty of leaning on the mic stand, but you can only do that so long before you're like, "Jesus, I'm bombing." The fact that people pay to come see me, that's really just out the window.”
“The basis of a democratic state is liberty”
“In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.”

Source : "All Calories are Not the Same!" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2009.
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.277, Zed Books
“Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.”
“I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.”
“So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.”
“We talked to a lot of filmmakers who had worked on other anthologies and we looked at every anthology, and we wanted to just find a different way [for Tales of Halloween]. And being that unity was what the whole spirit of the project was - unity and friendship and community.”

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