"When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate."

-- Mem Fox

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“It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.”

Source : "Sudan to Close Baghdad Embassy". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.
“How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.”
“As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!”
“I still hate [the Eagles]â€¦. Thereâ€™s levels of evil in it to me.”
“Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth.”

Source : "New Haitian minister of foreign affairs delivers first official speech". Laurent Lamothe's first official speech at his installation ceremony in Bois-Verna, Haiti, www.dominicavibes.dm. October 31, 2011.
“A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.325
“A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.”
“I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.”

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