"You've had a long working life As everyone knows You can now do nothing at all And then have a doze Enjoy Your Retirement"

-- John Walter Bratton

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“At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.”
“I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.”
“I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put in a ghetto like that. We have something to give to others. When you look to how African music is built, when you understand this kind of music, you can understand that a lot of all this modern music that you are hearing in the world has similarities to African music. It's like the origin of a lot of kinds of music.”
“All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.”
“We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.”
“That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.”
“Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.”
“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”

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