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“It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.”
Source : "Alison Kraus: Back to her roots" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011. 
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“Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.”
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“Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.”
Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press
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“A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.”
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“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.”
Source : Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press
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“Arguably there's no school for any high position of leadership. That said, Theodore Roosevelt was remarkably well prepared for the presidency. He had held executive positions in the military, in local government, in the federal government.”
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“The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.”
Source : 1988 Oscar and Lucinda, ch.43,'Leviathan'.
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“Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many instances, customers from rich countries circumventing their national laws to exploit children in other countries. Sex tourism has spread its illicit wings wide, and paedophiles search for their victims in all parts of the globe. The problem is compounded by the criminal networks which benefit from the trade in children, and by collusion and corruption in many national settings.”
