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Suzanne Collins

"But it's Posy, Gale's five-year-old sister, who helps the most. She scoots along the bench to Octavia and touches her skin with a tentative finger. â€œYou're green. Are you sick?â€ â€œIt's a fashion thing, Posy. Like wearing lipstick,â€ I say. â€œIt's meant to be pretty,â€ whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, â€œI think you'd be pretty in any color."

-- Suzanne Collins

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“I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it.”
“Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.”
“It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.”

Source : Douglas Mawson (2010). “The Home of the Blizzard: An Australian Hero's Classic Tale of Antarctic Discovery and Adventure”, p.192, Wakefield Press
“I am truly independently owned and operated.”
“I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.”
“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
“[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.”

Source : George Berkeley (1871). “Alciphron: or, The minute philosopher. 1732. Siris. 1744”, p.178
“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which covers the globe, through poetry and philosophy and religion, through church and state, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, till we come to a hard bottom that rocks in place which we can call reality and say, "This is and no mistake.”

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