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“The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.”
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“Choices are the hinges of destiny.”
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“The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!”
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“Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy.”
Source : Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.188, University of Pennsylvania Press
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“Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand”
Source : 1695 Valentine. Love for Love, act 4, sc.21.
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“That shot was going goalboundward”
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“Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.”
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“You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.”
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“Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, "Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around.”
Source : Charles Baxter (2012). “The Feast of Love”, p.17, HarperCollins UK
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“No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.”
Source : "The Latest Decalogue" l. 3 (1862)