"You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language."

-- Frank Smith

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“The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle”
“The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain Godâ€™s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.”
“You should only be doing the thing that makes you happy. Not just surface happy. That content, all-is-well-with-my-soul happy. It's the thing you would do for free, and if you do it, you actually become hugely successful and make a lot of money, because the universe is going to send you the resources.”
“Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy something that theyve been told is good, make an unsuccessful attempt to read it, and when they have accumulated half a dozen unread books, feel so bad that they are afraid to buy more. In contrast, the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.”

Source : Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books
“Men like women who are fun to be around, who are kind, intelligent, honest and who don't play games.”
“Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.”

Source : Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
“Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.”
“I studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school. And it took me about five years of hit-or-miss auditioning and booking on occasion before I could support myself totally as an actor.”

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