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“When a baby is born the mother in particular enters into a new larger relationship with the world. She has become connected to all people. She is part of keeping us on earthnot the "us" comprised of individuals but the species itself. By protecting this one baby this gift a mother accepts life's clearest responsibility.”
Source : Gavin De Becker (2013). “Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)”, p.22, Dell
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“There was something irresistible about popcorn.”
Source : Elizabeth George Speare (1958). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.”
Source : Stanford University interview, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002. 
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“If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.”
Source : Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.284, Hoover Institution Press
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“I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.”
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“Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.”
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“In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.”
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“The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.”
