"I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant."

-- Michael Morpurgo

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“Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.”
“My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'”
“Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.”
“The secret of art is love.”
“Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.”
“My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.”
“We start to try to live in tomorrow and the future, and start to think about what we build today as a stepping stone to graduate users.”
“Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.”

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