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“I guess the most important thing I learned from my mother was you have to raise your own children. I try to say this without judgment, but a lot of people really don't want to do the job because it's so much work. Kids are the hardest job there is, so they just hire someone to do it and then they go to work. There's something about that whole how do you balance being a mother and working, and i f I had to choose, I'd have to choose my kids and I do.”
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“Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.”
Source : Jack Vance (1981). “Star King”, p.7, Spatterlight Press
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“You need eyes that tell the dog who watches them what you are feeling toward it, even though the message may be hidden from the outside world. Above all, you nee telepathy so that the dog thinks with you. These things are not always born in people. They can be developed as any sense or gift can be developed. That is, providing the person wishes to develop them is honest in mind, because with animals you cannot cheat...”
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“While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.”
Source : Erwin Panofsky, William S. Heckscher (1997). “Three Essays on Style”, p.120, MIT Press
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“What you are doesn't matter. Because what you are isn't going to change who you are.”
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“Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.”
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“So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.”
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“One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.”
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“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
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“Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.”
Source : "Infinity Beach". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2000.
