"Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or even recognized at the time; they make fun of honored figures and piously held beliefs; and they view social pretenses with clear-eyed directness, remarking - as in Andersen's famous tale - that the emperor has no clothes."

-- Alison Lurie

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“There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.396, A&C Black
“Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.”
“It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!”
“All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.”
“You don't really choose where you're born, but in our hearts, we can choose where we belong to.”
“Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.”

Source : "The whole world in a community". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.”

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