"Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately."

-- F. M. Powicke

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“I've never been fired in my life.”
“I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.”
“A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.22, Bantam
“It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all.”
“It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.”
“Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.”
“God, I love you," he said, and laid his head on her belly, his arms locked around her hips. Madelyn slid her fingers into his hair. "It took you long enough," she said gently. "What I lack in quickness, I make up in staying power." "Meaning?" "That I'll still be telling you that fifty years from now." He paused and turned his head to kiss her stomach.”

Source : Linda Howard (1990). “Duncan's Bride”, Mira Books
“For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.”

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