"My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice."

-- Johann Lamont

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“If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!”
“My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.”

Source : Sharon Creech (2009). “Granny Torrelli Makes Soup”, p.5, Harper Collins
“I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.”

Source : Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. May 22, 2009.
“A child isnâ€™t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Letâ€™s just say that when I realized that I didnâ€™t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you canâ€™t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.”
“All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.”
“Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.”
“From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism--that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction.”

Source : Hal Rothman (2010). “The Making of Modern Nevada”, p.1, University of Nevada Press
“Each man's life represents a road toward himself.”

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