"Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without them? I wonder if we aren't all a little surprised at the moment of crossover, if we don't look back over our shoulders saying, Now hold on."

-- Elizabeth Berg

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“Some think, excuse me if I use the word, that in order to be good Catholics, we have to be like rabbits - but no.”
“Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.”
“I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried to sue them for throwing her out of the theatre; it was that they took the law and used it to arrest her. That was really shocking to me. We had no laws in Canada actually requiring segregation, like they did in the United States. But here we had people using the law - the amusements tax act - to enforce segregation, and our courts allowed them to do that.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“By the light of your stars, heal me.”

Source : Joyce Rupp (2003). “The Star in My Heart: Experiencing Sophia, Inner Wisdom”, Sorin Books
“So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?â€ asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs. â€œI donâ€™t see that it makes that much difference. Theyâ€™ll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.”
“I believe in commitment. I believe in being open and trusting each other and respecting each other completely.”

Source : "Enrique Iglesias, Anna Kournikova Don’t Plan To Marry". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.
“I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.”

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