"Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something."

-- Isaac Asimov

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“An island of surety in a changing world.”
“I write poetry because I canâ€™t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time Iâ€™ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and canâ€™t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?â€¦It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.”
“The only thing I smoke is my competition”

Source : Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.15, Penguin
“Don't underestimate the value of beginning a headline by naming the people you want to reach.”
“There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening.”
“The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.”
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.”
“Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen in the sense of the Constitution, and entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining to that capacity.”

Source : William Rawle (1825). “A View of the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.80

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