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“Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.”
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“Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.”
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“There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.”
Source : Frank Portman (2006). “King Dork”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“Fashion wears many faces; it has the urge to belong to a group - to charm - but also the urge to be exclusive and snobbish to carve out individuality. That is the genius of fashion! Fashion is what time looks like, and it's up to us all to shape what our own time looks like. Fashion is a collaborative art form in this way... We all paint the picture.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.”
Source : "Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy". Book by Anders Stephanson, p. 160, 1989.
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“Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live in an environment that has properties E. The theory of natural selection is filled with statements of this form.”
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“At this point, a lot of people have made their mind up about me one way or another. I'm sure there's a certain segment of writers who won't ever give me the time of day, hate me, don't get me, don't think I'm good, or whatever. I guess that's fine. It's only an opinion. There are other people who do get it, and can be objective. I could be wrong, but a lot of people have made up their minds one way or the other.”
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“When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.”
