"Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?"

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Source : Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.119, Spectra

Connie Willis

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“Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.”
“Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.”

Source : George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.6, Lulu.com
“I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like weve both got red hair, we both like sweets, weve both got lots of brothers and sisters. Ive got one brother and three sisters, and both scared of spiders.”

Source : "Two 'Potter' stars talk about the film". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2001.
“Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.”
“Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.”
“The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.”
“Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.”
“Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.”

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