"The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops."

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Source : Katharine Lee Bates (1907). “From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England”

Katharine Lee Bates

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“Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves.”
“I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.”
“I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.”
“Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.”
“Especially working with Adam Brody, he's just so funny in every day life. Working with him is a lot of fun. We play pranks on each other.”
“They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.”

Source : Jatinder Nath Sanyal, Kripal Chandra Yadav, Bhagat Singh, Babar Singh, The Bhagat Singh Foundation (2006). “Bhagat Singh: a biography”
“I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.”

Source : "Jo Brand: fat jokes matter". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2011.
“To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.”

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