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		The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Ness 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. Somerset Maugham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				F. Scott Fitzgerald 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vanessa Diffenbaugh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eberhard Weber 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Lagerfeld 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You don't have to get it right the first time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Sher 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Dennett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dag Hammarskjold 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kat Dennings 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victor LaValle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Cronkite 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Deming 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maria Grazia Cucinotta 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Some of us may offer a surprise Recently have you looked in our eyes Maybe we're your conscience in disguise 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Joan Baez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oscar Wilde 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's everyone's dread to lose a child. You lose someone you love so much, so young. It does hit you like nothing else, and there is a bit of you that thinks, well, if you can face that sort of challenge in your life, then it puts everything else into perspective. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Cameron 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Manmohan Singh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Ness