"Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance."

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Source : Graham Joyce (2012). “Some Kind of Fairy Tale”, p.248, Hachette UK

Graham Joyce

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“Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.”
“Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.”
“In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?”

Source : "Information, The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2003.
“In love, one and one are one.”
“We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?”
“I don't wanna go on vacation. There's nothing about it that appeals to me. People look forward to doing that; I look forward to getting up every day and doing something.”
“I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.”
“Good or bad I propose to be something great!”

Source : "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.

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