"I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time."

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Jan Brett

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“The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.”
“One must not be shy where language is concerned.”

Source : Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.198, Bloomsbury Publishing
“My mission is to put France back on its feet. The priority is employment. Efforts have to be made, but those efforts must be made fairly.”
“The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.”
“There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.”
“It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.”

Source : John Hughlings Jackson, James Taylor, Sir Gordon Holmes (1958). “Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: Evaluation and dissolution of the nervous system. Speech. Various papers, addresses and lectures”
“The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.”
“Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal. ... When the stock market drops 10 points in some cities, it constitutes a tragedy. Someone who dies is not news, but lowering income by 10 points is a tragedy! In this way people are thrown aside as if they were trash.”

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