"I don't like needing anyone for anything."

-- Jackie Robinson

“To be perfectly honest, I was never really aware that I had any special abilities. When you have what you have, you don't really think about what you don't have; you simply work with what you have.”
“I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.”
“How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.”
“In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.”

Source : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.194, Penguin
“The big steel wheels creaked a couple times, then started moving.”

Source : Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“I don't worry about new home sales”
“Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.”

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