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“Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.”
Source : Interview with Heidi Raykeill, www.literarymama.com. April 2004. 
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“Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years”
Source : FaceBook post by Robert A. Caro from Jan 12, 2012
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“I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty—and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.”
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“I always want to write something better than the last book.”
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“You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.”
Source : "Fictional character: Fisher". "Out of the Past", www.imdb.com. 1947.
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“For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.”
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“Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.”
Source : Kathleen Thompson Norris (1914). “Saturday's Child”
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“I thought it would be easy to cast a Bond girl, because there are so many beautiful women in this world. But not many of them can act. Their acting needed to be really strong and three-dimensional. Historically, the role of women in the world has changed. You can't have someone in a Bond film just as a sex object.”
