"If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone."

-- Paul the Apostle

“And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.”
“People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.”
“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.”

Source : "Warning" l. 1 (1965)
“Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Rose Tremain, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“Every move creates a weakness.”
“That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.”
“When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 3, Estimating Portfolio Risk and Expected Return with Ad Hoc Factor Models, p. 29, 1999.
“Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.”

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