"Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven brothers--they were all princes--used to go to school with stars on their breasts and swords at their sides. They wrote upon golden slates with diamond pencils, and could read just as well without a book as with one, so there was no mistake about their being princes. Their sister Elise sat upon a little footstool of looking-glass, and she has a picture-book which had cost the half of a kingdom. Oh, these children were very happy; but it was not to last thus forever."

-- Hans Christian Andersen

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“I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.”
“Don't waste your sufferings.”
“Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.”
“But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.”
“I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.”
“Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.”
“When you have a bad game the social network isn't exactly your best friend. People tend to go after you a little bit, but I don't let it bother me.”

Source : "Talking to Our NFL Rookie of the Year Pick Eddie Lacy About Twitter and Getting Hit Very Hard". Interview with Esquire, www.esquire.com. January 27, 2014.
“The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.”

Source : "The Caging of America" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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