"A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at."

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“Fate has me highly skilled and loaded with talent.”
“If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and noble and mighty, but by every member of Christ's body being a working member; doing his work; filling his own sphere; holding his own post; and saying to Jesus, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?”

Source : Thomas Guthrie (1873). “The Way to Life”, p.307
“Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu (1984). “Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste”, p.6, Harvard University Press
“In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.”
“Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.”
“A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'.”
“Actually, I don't really draw that well. It's just that I don't stop trying as quickly. I keep at it. I happen to have high standards and I try to meet them. I have to struggle like hell to make a drawing look good.”
“I've been in the same place for 10 years and having to say goodbye and clean out the locker is the toughest part.”

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