"Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.”
“Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.”
“The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.”
“Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.”
“If you ask me if Iâ€™m imagining it again, Iâ€™m going to punch you out, Dead Man Walking.â€ Michael raised his eyebrows and glanced at Eve. â€œHe doesnâ€™t sound crazy.â€ â€œEr,â€ she clarified, â€œcrazier. He sounds like heâ€™s back to normal, which is baseline crazy.”
“I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects”
“People need to have compassion for others.”

Source : "I've finally beaten my mental health demons" by Nick Owens, www.mirror.co.uk. April 3, 2011.

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