"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

-- Virginia Woolf

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“Funny,â€™ Will said, as they picked their way through. â€˜Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.â€™ â€˜They are English,â€™ Merriman said. â€˜Quite right,â€™ said Willâ€™s father. â€˜Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. Weâ€™re an odd lotâ€¦.”
“An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.”

Source : George Haven Putnam (2008). “Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Sounds good. Drive safe." He sighed, knowing I really meant, "Take care of my Mercedes.”
“When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.”
“In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.”

Source : "Beth Simone Noveck, Former U.S Deputy Chief Technology Officer, On The Tech Trends That Worry Her Most". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.
“That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.”
“The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.”

Source : Paul Tournier (1978). “The Violence Within”, HarperCollins Publishers
“My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.”

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