"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."

-- William Blake

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“Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.”
“Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?”
“One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.”
“I owe a lot of people an apology. I hurt a lot of people. Not just my wife. My friends, my colleagues, the public, kids who looked up to me. There were a lot of people that thought I was a different person and my actions were not according to that.”
“I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though Iâ€™m joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichÃ©d feelings. Iâ€™m glad Iâ€™m the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.157, A&C Black
“If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.”
“Those who canâ€™t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.”
“I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day”

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