"See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers."

-- John Thomas Sladek

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“An Organisation That Does Not Invest In Itself, Has No Future.”
“Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”
“Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.”

Source : Song: Red Neck Woman, 2004
“To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.”
“He pitches better when he's mad, so I try to make him that way.”
“Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!”
“Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.”

Source : "Model lives with chronic disease". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.
“Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.”

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