"Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical."

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Source : Cathy Cassidy (2008). “Lucky Star”, p.150, Penguin UK

Cathy Cassidy

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“Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degreesâ€”which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.”
“Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.”

Source : William Bayle Bernard, Samuel Lover (1874). “The Life of Samuel Lover, R. H. A.: Artistic, Literary, and Musical, with Selections from His Unpublished Papers and Correspondence”, p.113
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“Itâ€™s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.”
“While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.”
“Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.”
“The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.”
“Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.”

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