"Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country."

-- George Orwell

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“Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.”
“Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That's the big secret.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I do a lot of work with policymakers, but how much effect am I having? It’s like they’re coming in and saying to you, ‘I’m going to drive my car off a cliff. Should I or should I not wear a seatbelt?’ And you say, ‘I don’t think you should drive your car off the cliff.’ And they say, ‘No, no, that bit’s already been decided—the question is whether to wear a seatbelt.’ And you say, ‘Well, you might as well wear a seatbelt.’ And then they say, ‘We’ve consulted with policy expert Rory Stewart and he says . . . .’”
“Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.”

Source : "More Chips For Tax Reform". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. November 24, 2012.
“A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.”
“I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.”

Source : Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (1958). “Wieland, Or, The Transformation”, p.75, Hackett Publishing
“10:38 AM - Third period. Kaylee has no class this period. I have no one to kill. Coincidence, or fate?”
“Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.”

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