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“Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English.”
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“Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.”
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“I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.”
Source : "Ron Kovic: Peace movement will be largest ever". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2003. 
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“I always go heavy and I always go to failure. Even when I tell myself I'm gonna go easy, once I get to the gym and start working, I never end up going easy. I hate leaving the floor feeling like I could have done more weight or more reps. I just love working out and going further than I ever did before.”
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“I'd just like to say "thank you" to President Bush and to the men and women of the US military, who by the New York Times' own admission took out a terror-sponsoring regime in Iraq that could have constructed a nuclear weapon within months, as soon as sanctions were lifted enough for them to obtain sufficient fissile material.”
Source : Little Green Footballs weblog, November 03, 2006.
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“I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.”
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“...Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.”
Source : Steven Kotler (2008). “West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief”, p.183, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved. One day he will recognize music as a vital factor in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual evolution of the whole human race.”
Source : Corinne Heline (1965). “Music: the keynote of human evolution”
