"There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race."

-- Jean Rostand

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“Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.”
“My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.”

Source : "Brendan Rodgers readies Swansea City for the big time". Interview With Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2011.
“You're either reading a book or you're not.”
“I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.”
“At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.”
“Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild and terrorizing Americans at will. The IRS hypocritically requires mistake-free returns when its own books are in shambles. It demands exorbitant sums of money without regard to the accuracy of its claims. It doesn't hesitate to use every possible maneuver to get what it wants, sometimes destroying businesses -- and lives -- in the process.”
“Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.”

Source : Khushwant Singh, Nandini Mehta (1993). “Not a nice man to know: the best of Khushwant Singh”
“English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.”

Source : Rachel Johnson (2009). “In a Good Place: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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