"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."

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Harper Lee

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“Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.”
“Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that season, I orchestrated a meeting between the two of them, thinking that Michael might help shift Kobeâ€™s attitude toward selfless teamwork. After they shook hands, the first words out of Kobeâ€™s mouth were, â€˜You know I can kick your ***** one on one.â€™”
“For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.”
“My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.”
“Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it kick back. From the intensity and duration of thousands of those kicks over many years, we have formed a coherent theory of matter and forces, called the standard model, that currently agrees with all observations.”
“Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.”

Source : "Jon Cryer: I Thought Charlie Sheen Was Going to Die" by Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 19, 2011.
“Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.”

Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.41, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.”

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