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“The moot court process in our office when we get ready, we - everybody, including the SG, does two moot courts for each argument. And they are phenomenal, and they predict 90 percent of the questions that I get asked, at least 90 percent.”
Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
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“If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.”
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“That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.”
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“The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.”
Source : Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.159, New York Review of Books
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“I like the challenge of getting players to rise to certain levels, but that's the easy part. The biggest challenge is to get them to believe in what we're doing. They have to understand that it's O.K. to have good days and bad days.”
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“I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.”
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“But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?”
Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.166, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Ignore me. I don’t want to talk about my nonexistent love life today.”