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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

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• The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Live
  • Years
  • London

• One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Film
  • Head

• I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Interesting

• In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Cancer
  • New
  • Evidence

• I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Look
  • Internet
  • Try

• I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Change
  • College
  • Perception

• My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Write
  • Instinct
  • Cloak

• The Internet really offered a space for me to thrive.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Me
  • Space
  • Thrive

• It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • True
  • Way
  • Me

• We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Men
  • Kids
  • Together

• 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Air

• The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Happy

• New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Heart
  • Me
  • Blood

• Usually, if you see the environment destroyed, it’s not because that's necessary for development. It's usually because we're being lazy, and we're not being as creative as we could be about how to do it in a smarter, sustainable way.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Environment
  • Lazy

• When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Believe

• As a rule people don’t think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • People
  • Funny

• Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Happy
  • Spiritual
  • Useful

• I was really fat in school.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • School
  • Really
  • Fat

• I love Chanel.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Chanel

• Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

  

  Bryan Robson
  • Different

• Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Useful

• A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

  

  Quintus Curtius Rufus