"The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison."

Source : Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

Brandon Mull

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“It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true”

Source : "Interview: Actress Lily Collins on 'Mirror Mirror,' Modern Day Princes, Beauty in Hollywood". Interview with Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. March 27, 2012.
“The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.”

Source : "Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, 1983.
“If you have a big idea, you can do 10% of it, and then maybe, if it's a huge success, you might go all-in [in Europe]. Here [in U.S], you go all-in earlier. You risk more and you get more, so you do more. That's what I like.”
“I stand for a strong state that safeguards freedom. I don't need to show muscle for that.”
“Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.”
“Where there's a will, there's a way. Hackers tend to find a way. Code is also expanding. More lines of code means more probability that there is an exploit that can be [used].”
“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”

Source : "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.
“Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we deal with it, we can rise above it and stay strong and true to ourselves.”

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