"In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)"

-- Barbara Mertz

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“Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.”

Source : "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds". Book by Charles Mackay, 1841.
“Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know”
“We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.”

Source : Elizabeth Prentiss (1876). “Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's hero”, p.56
“The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.”

Source : "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.
“I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed,”
“Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.”
“What 'Twilight' gave me was years to consider how I wanted to work otherwise.”

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