"Lawyers are natural politicians."

-- Clarence Darrow

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“We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.”
“I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters.”
“And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.”

Source : "Glenn Beck: An Hour With Author Vince Flynn". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2009.
“We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.”

Source : Josef Škvorecký (1986). “The engineer of human souls: an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death”, Picador
“... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.”
“I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.”
“Mathematicians are born, not made.”
“Here's the thing: I am not beautiful. I'm pretty. I'll allow that much. Pretty. But I'm not the girl boys long for.”

Source : Katherine Applegate, Michael Grant (2012). “Eve and Adam”, p.33, Egmont UK

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