"A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it."

-- Ma Rainey

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“And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.”
“Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.”
“The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.”
“And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.”
“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”

Source : Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.183, Hachette UK
“Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.”

Source : "Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies 'could provide half of global carbon target'" by Duncan Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.
“Moonless winter night- a billow of rising fog hides the distant pines”
“I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical formulae, they find their origin in the divine source of all geometry. Whether I shall have the satisfaction of taking part in their exposition, or whether that will remain for some more profound expositor, will be seen in the future.”

Source : "Linear Associative Algebra" by Benjamin Peirce, (Preface), 1882.

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