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		'There was only one cadet I ever really hated. Just one name I can think of,' The Boo said. 'That'll make an interesting story for the book, Colonel. Who is the jerk?' I asked. 'It was you, Conroy. Just you. There was something about you that I hated when you first walked into fourth battalion, you worthless bum.'
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Conroy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				R. D. Laing 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fanny Howe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walt Mossberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Cudmore 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kaley Cuoco 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Isaac Hanson 
			 
			
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		There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yi So-Yeon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Max Weber 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Shawn Achor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paul McCartney 
			 
			
				Paul McCartney and Wings  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Well you know, the comic strip [Doctor Strange]... yeah, was an Asian man, in fact, a very ancient Tibetan man living on the top of a mountain. The film script that I was given wasn't an Asian man, so I wasn't asked to play an Asian man - I was asked to play an ancient Celtic person. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tilda Swinton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'There was only one cadet I ever really hated. Just one name I can think of,' The Boo said. 'That'll make an interesting story for the book, Colonel. Who is the jerk?' I asked. 'It was you, Conroy. Just you. There was something about you that I hated when you first walked into fourth battalion, you worthless bum.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Conroy