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		All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bill Bryson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Germond 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Jenkins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Joy Fowler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samantha Harvey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hamza Yusuf 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Octavia E. Butler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tamara Mellon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ursula K. Le Guin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl von Clausewitz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Epictetus 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We say that our world must think of and listen to consumers, and this is true, but not too much, in the sense that if you want to change and innovate, you must also think with your own head. Maybe you make choices that the market is not ready to accept but that will be accepted in 18 or 24 months. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Marco Bizzarri 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bill Bryson