"Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable."

-- Alice Meynell

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“NOT, Iâ€™ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwistâ€”slack they may beâ€”these last strands of man In me Ã³r, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.”
“Yes, I have a driver's license." I leaned back against the wall, sighing. "Man, that must be so cool." "It ranks right up there with lockers. In fact, sometimes I put my license inside my locker, and it's so cool I worry that the whole thing might explode with the sheer coolness of it all.”
“Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.”
“I’m very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.”

Source : "Betty Who Discusses Musical Influences And Her Song ‘Somebody Loves You’". Interview with Christopher Rudolph, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2013.
“Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it”
“The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a great and beautiful novel which mainly involved shallow people going to parties in a rich guy's house. By contrast, all sorts of terrible books are published every month about men slaughtering people for no reason - a serious matter which, in itself, does not make the author worthy of serious consideration.”
“It all comes down to who's by your side.”
“Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity”

Source : "Bush Seeks Free Trade With Latin America". "All Things Considered" with Michele Kelemen, www.npr.org. September 24, 2008.

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