"Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable."

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Source : "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint". www.nytimes.com. April 26, 2010.

H. R. McMaster

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“Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.”
“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
“I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.”
“Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.”
“For me, addiction comes down to basically where a pattern of behaviour has developed and that pattern of behaviour is becoming a very damaging cycle. It's sort of damaging your relationships, friends or lovers, it's damaging your own personal health and it's damaging for you and your workplace.”
“I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue.”
“Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.”
“I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.”

Source : Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.

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