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“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.”
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“I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.”
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“I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.”
Source : Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House
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“While briskly to each patriot lip Walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit!”
Source : John Trumbull (1839). “M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos”, p.56
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“I was working full time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy. At one point a month had gone by, and Marc - my then boyfriend, now husband, and I hadn't gone out on a date. I was like, I don't want to be this person. I want to be a person who cares where she's investing her time and energy. And I want to be a good wife, daughter, and friend.”
Source : "Think You Know Chelsea Clinton? Think Again" by Genevieve Roth, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2013.
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“When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.”
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“I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.”
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“A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.”