"Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce."

-- George R. R. Martin

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“I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.”
“I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.”

Source : Tom Hodgkinson, Dan Kieran (2010). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.48, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.”

Source : James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”
“Winning is not about how many medals you get-it's about accomplishing goals and just being the best you can be!”
“A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.”

Source : Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal (2011). “Intellectual Impostures”, p.196, Profile Books
“While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.”
“If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the 'coach' or 'yelling surrogate' dad who will never be happy.”

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