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“All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?”
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“Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all”
Source : Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.323, Vintage
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“In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.”
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“I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.”
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“I think I've always had a pretty good time in life. I mean, I've had major trouble, and major brain surgeries, and challenges in relationships - like anyone else - but overall, when I wake up in the morning, and I'm aware, I'm like, "Ok. What's happening today? What's next?"”
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“Nothing is small or great in God's sight. Whatever He wills becomes great to us, however seemingly trifling; and if once the voice of conscience tells us that He requires anything of us, we have no right to measure its importance.”
Source : Jean Nicolas Grou (1876). “The hidden life of the soul [by J.N. Grou]. From the Fr. by the author of A Dominican artist”, p.206
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“I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.”