"Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net."

-- E. B. White

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“A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a â€˜meaningâ€™ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for lifeâ€™s meaning, we may have no time to live â€” or to play.”
“We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.”
“Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.”
“Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.”

Source : Sir William Petty (1769). “Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland”, p.7
“Love me or hate me, both are in my favorâ€¦If you love me, I'll always be in your heartâ€¦If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.”
“â€¦ but you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to surviveâ€¦”
“The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever.”
“I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.”

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