"If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that."

-- Paul Konerko

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“We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.”
“The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.”
“Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters.”
“[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.”
“Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance”

Source : David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.381, Hachette UK
“To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media â€“ which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now itâ€™s the people who are taking control.”
“Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.41, University of Missouri Press
“If you guys are interested in getting any kind of animal, definitely go and adopt.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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