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“Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.”
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“You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it.”
Source : "Cynthia Kenyon: 'The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013. 
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“Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.”
Source : "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.
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“The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.”
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“My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.”
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“As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may find”
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“Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.”
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“Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.”
Source : Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
