"What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question."

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Margaret Atwood

“Most fans go wild when they see a goalie make what looks like a great save, but the chances are what they are seeing is a save that was made from being out of position.”
“A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.”
“Be happy for no reason, like a child.”
“In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.261, Lulu Press, Inc
“Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.”
“One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour.”

Source : Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.433, Chicago Review Press
“We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers people to be soldiers.”

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