"No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together."

-- Wilson Follett

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“I don t get through many pairs. Luckily enough they are very hard wearing.”

Source : "Peter Crouch Interview - Puma PowerCat 1.10". SoccerBible Interview, www.soccerbible.com. March 20, 2014.
“My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.”

Source : "Rudolf Hess: Prisoner of Peace". Book by Ilse Hess, 1982.
“I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.”
“After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.”
“Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is...”
“With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.”
“Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.”
“To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.”

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