"If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaperâ€”memories cling to the printed page better than anything else."

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

Cornelia Funke

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“I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!”

Source : "Heidi Montag Wants Her Fake Boobs Attacked By Sharks in 3D" by Will Leblanc, www.cinemablend.com.
“Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it is today to support a population nearly double its current size, then technology will have to reduce its impact twenty-fold merely to keep the planet at its current levels of environmental impact. For example, to stabilize the climate we may have to reduce real carbon emissions by as much as 80 percent, while simultaneously growing the world economy by an order of magnitude.”

Source : Stuart L. Hart (2010). “Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World”, p.52, FT Press
“Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.97, University of Chicago Press
“The more a prospective customer clicks on you and your stuff, the easier it is for them to make a buying decision in your favor.”
“A black woman's body was never hers alone.”
“I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!”

Source : "Edinburgh fringe's 10 funniest jokes revealed" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.
“I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.”
“Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.”

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