"Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else Iâ€™m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicureanâ€”reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it."

-- Jo Walton

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“To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.”
“The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life.”
“The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, and more interesting. The poor and the weak die with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.”
“To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.”
“This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the already widespread view that religion doesn't have a lot to do with modern concerns - the way people live, the way they think.”
“Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .”
“I'm addicted to directing!”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.”

Source : Michael P. Nichols (2009). “The Lost Art of Listening, Second Edition: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships”, p.11, Guilford Press

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