"Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

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“A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that - every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new”
“You’re every single fantasy I've ever had.”

Source : Bella Andre (2014). “Let Me Be the One: The Sullivans: (Contemporary Romance)”, p.94, Oak Press, LLC
“The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.”
“I've pursued a lifetime in the research on the social determinants of health and more recently been packaging not just my research but global research on this topic in a way that I hope will influence policy.”
“Treatment of the apparently whimsical fluctuations of the stock quotations as truly non stationary processes requires a model of such complexity that its practical value is likely to be limited. An additional complication, not encompassed by most stock market models, arises from the manifestation of the market as a nonzero sum game.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Nine, Weighted Statistical Logic And Statistical Games, 1977.
“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six oâ€™clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”

Source : Ishmael Reed (1995). “Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down”
“When you are young, if you can define your long-term dream, - something that you can get passionate about - solidify your values, dare to take a risk and then put a plan together to accomplish that dream... that could be the difference between success and failure in life.”
“The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.”

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