"I like marriage. The idea."

-- Toni Morrison

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“I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.”
“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”
“Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.”

Source : Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company
“If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.”
“If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.”
“As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.”
“'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.”

Source : "New ball game, same old team" by Faisal Islam, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2004.
“I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.”

Source : Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.183, Macmillan

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