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Authors
Sarah Vowell

"Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top."

Source : "The Partly Cloudy Patriot". Book by Sarah Vowell, 2001.

Sarah Vowell

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“I'm treating every day as a special one and trying to live in the moment.”

Source : Source: sunsetintherearview.com
“Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.”
“I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.”
“Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.”
“I believe the example of the Zapatistas is a very relevant historical example. I would say it is one of the forms at the idea level, and through the work they have achieved, one of the most dignified historical examples that has happened in the history of the world.”
“**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23”
“Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “A Rare Benedictine: The Advent Of Brother Cadfael”, p.69, Head of Zeus
“Today, most models don't know the first thing about makeup. My mom taught me that makeup is supposed to enhance my natural beauty, not create a mask.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

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