"She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. In a weird way, the world seemed to make more sense that way."

-- Anne Ursu

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“I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris
“Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?”
“difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.”

Source : John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.”
“The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.”
“Life is a smoke that curls- Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall.”
“I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.”
“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”

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