"A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT."

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Meg Cabot

#Growing Up Quotes #Book Quotes #Hero Quotes

“We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a way which keeps the world together and that achieves our goal which is removing the... defanging Saddam..”

Source : "Senators Richard Lugar and Carl Levin Discuss Next Moves in Iraq". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. December 10, 2002.
“Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.”
“My main problem has been staying healthy.”
“If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.”

Source : "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values". Book by Dorothy Nolte and Rachel Harris, January 5, 1998.
“The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.”

Source : "Strangling the messenger" by Niall Stanage, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2006.
“In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.”
“I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?”
“An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,”

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