"Ice is for death and endings."

-- Guy Gavriel Kay

“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.”

Source : "Starve the Poor" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2010.
“What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 217), 1895.
“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”
“I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.”
“Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders except by my command, . . . I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport . . . without my command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one.”
“Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.”
“In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.”
“Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.”

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