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“Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.”
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“Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.”
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“Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.†I was totally confused. “In the car?†“In your life,†he said.”
Source : Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.308, Crown
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“Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.”
Source : Margaret Drabble (2014). “The Millstone”, p.5, Canongate Books
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“A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.”
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“Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.”
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“A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.”
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“What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.”
Source : Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin