"What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert his post. Send us only our first twenty men and I may be tempted to come to help you to find the second twenty."

-- Alexander Murdoch Mackay

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“It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.”
“I say that I get paid to travel, and I play the shows for free.”
“I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.”

Source : "Angel's Alexis Denisof goes post-apocalyptic in a new web series". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 7, 2012.
“The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.”

Source : "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 6, The Precarious Eden, p. 151), 1989.
“Sam picked up his pack, but before he could put it on, Mogget leaped onto it and slid under the top flap. All that could be seen of him were his green eyes and one white-furred ear. "Remember I advised against this way," he instructed. "Wake me when whatever terrible thing is a about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet.”
“But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.”
“I live in the #â€Ž present moment.”
“Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.”

Source : Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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