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“I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.”
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“Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.”
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“Peace cannot be unilateral.”
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“Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.”
Source : S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.365, Penguin
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“"Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all flying is flying in the face of nature. It's unnatural, wicked and stuffed with risks all the time. The secret to flying is learning to minimize the risks." "Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?"”
Source : Gavin Lyall (2013). “Shooting Script”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.”
Source : "T-Pain almost ended up working at McDonald's". The Associated Press interview, www.today.com. June 8, 2007. 
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“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.”
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“Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.”
