"It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view."

-- David Livingstone

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“Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues”
“I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.”

Source : Lawrence Block (2011). “The Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries: Volume Two”, p.49, Hachette UK
“Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.”
“Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.”
“And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.135, Scholastic Inc.
“It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.”
“The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.”

Source : Attributed to Herman E. Daly in Tristan Clark "Stick This in Your Memory Hole" (p. 19), 2007.
“Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.”

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