"I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust."

-- Samuel Beckett

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“Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.”
“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”

Source : Alice Munro (2013). “Runaway”, p.252, Random House
“There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.”
“Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?”

Source : The New York Times, December 10, 1916.
“I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.”

Source : Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.
“Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.”

Source : ALAN VALENTINE (1962). “1913 America Between Two Worlds”
“If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god-awfully collectivistic, you may be sure that the author is a conservative.”
“What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.”

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