"If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later."

-- Mark Twain

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“I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.”

Source : "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.
“Of course I want to lead [Tory] party. Of course I want to lead this party in order to put forward an alternative and lead this party to win the election as soon as it comes.”
“The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.”
“I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.”

Source : "Are you sure? The 12 things that celebrities have claimed are 'better than sex'" by Rod McPhee, www.mirror.co.uk. October 26, 2013.
“It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring.”
“We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.”
“Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”
“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”

Source : Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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