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• Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime, and every kindness, we birth our future. (Sonmi-451, 2144)
  

• May we forever remember that in each and every moment we are composing the stories of our lives. Let's aim to make it a meaningful read, or at least an interesting one. Dr Richard Brown (Professor of English)
  

• A child points, and is taught a word. Tree. Later, he learns to distinguish this tree from all the others. He learns its particular name. He plays under the tree. He dances  around  it.  Stands  beneath  its  branches,  for shade or shelter. He kisses under it, sleeps under it, he weds under it. He marches past it on his way to war, and limps past it on his journey home. A king is said to have hidden in this tree. A spirit may dwell within its bark. Its distinctive leaves are carved onto the tombs and monuments of his landlords. Its wood might have built  the  galleons  that  saved  his  ancestors  from invasion. And all this, the general and the specific, the national and the personal, all this, he knows, and feels, and  summons  somehow,  however  faintly,  with  the utterance of a single sound. 'Oak.' Saxon word. Proto-Germanic. Cognates in  Old  Norse. 'Eik.'  Language  is never nonsense. Language is meaning. History. Layer upon layer upon layer. And a word without meaning is what? Merely a sound”. Joseph Wright, Ph.D. (Professor of Comparative Philology)
  

• I don't know what it is with you guys and your generation. Don't you guys live life outside the goddamn phone? Earl Stone

• Dr aziz and Mr Fielding:

• Ramon Fonseca : Saving the world, as it turns out, is very hard, you know? Long hours, bad pay, and perhaps the world does not want to be saved... At some point, you decide it might just be easier to save yourself. So, I became a lawyer for the not-so-meek.

• Ramon Fonseca : Inside all of us, there are packs of wolves, some flocks of sheep roaming through our thoughts. We want to be fair, and yet, we want to win. We want to be righteous, but we want to get ahead. Such is our struggle.

• What makes life mean something is purpose. A goal, a battle, a struggle. Even if you don't win it. Richard M. Nixon

• Success in America is unlike success anywhere else. David Frost

• Vienna is like Paris without the French. David Frost
  

• You are exceptional. You are a person who had achieved great fame without possessing any discernible quality. Caroline Cushing

• No matter how high we get, the snobs still look down at us. No matter how many awards, or column inches are written about you or high the elected office is for me, it's still not enough. We still feel like the little man, the loser they told us we were a hundred times. The smart-asses at college, the high-ups, the well-born, the people whose respect we really wanted, really craved. And isn't that why we work so hard now, why we fight for every inch, scrambling our way up in undignified fashion? If we're honest for a minute, if we reflect privately just for a moment, if we allow ourselves a glimpse into that shadowy place we call our soul, isn't that why we're here now? The two of us? Looking for a way back into the sun, into the limelight, back onto the winner's podium. Because we could feel it slipping away. We were headed both of us, for the dirt! A place the snobs always told us that we'd end up. Face in the dust. Humiliated all the more for having tried so pitifully hard. Richard M. Nixon

• You've got no idea how fortunate that makes you... Having that facility, that lightness, that charm. I don't have it. I never did. I'm better suited to a life of thought, debate, intellectual discipline. Richard M. Nixon

• You're in America, now. So you have to be the best version of yourself. Dr Bennet Omalu
  

• Sometimes in life, you're asked to leave it alone. But sometimes you can't. ... I never leave it alone. That's why people hate me. Dr Cyril Wecht
  

• Do you mind getting your beak out of your phone?  Gus Lobel

• Problem with the curve:

• I'm not like you. You say things and people listen. And I'm not like that. Todd Anderson

• The meek might inherit the earth but they don't make it into Harvard. Neil Perry

• Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie. Carl Jung

• There are over 200 species under the genus 'rosa'. And there's a rose database that has over 6000 variations of roses. It seems almost excessive. Joe

• This is a service station. We offer service. Service to others... There's no higher purpose. Soc

• Do you know what's the difference between me and you? You practice gymnastics, I practice everything. Soc

• The Lord fashioned us a little above the beast, and a little below the angels. But He gave us a choice.

• I’ll tell you what I know to be true. It helps me in times when I’m feeling unsure. I know that we are descendants of a mighty people, who gave civilization to the world. People who survived the hulls of slave ships across vast oceans. People who innovate and create and love despite pressures and tortures unimaginable. They are in our bloodstream. Pumping our hearts every second. They’ve prepared you. You are already prepared. Amelia Boynton

• Never get on the bad side of small-minded people who have a little authority. Evelyn Adler

• There's no rhyme or reason to this life. It's days like today scattered among the rest. Marcus

• Feelings aren't facts. Bridges [attorney at law]

• The money, the property, the belongings. The things one acquires in one's lifetime. The things by which one measures one's life.

• We accept the love we think we deserve. Mr Anderson (High School English teacher)

• Anyone can figure out life when you're looking back on it. But we got to live it going forward. Dolores
  

• Ihre englisch ist sehr gut, fast perfekt. You hit the consonants a tad hard, though. Marshal Teddy Daniels to Dr Jeremiah Naehring

• It's "Your Majesty", the first time. After that, it's "ma'am", as in "ham". Not "ma'am", as in "palm". Queen Elizabeth

• Swordsmanship's first achievement is the unity of man and sword. Once this unity is attained, even a blade of grass can be a weapon. The second achievement is when the sword exists in one's heart when absent from one's hand. One can strike an enemy at 100 paces, even with bare hands. Swordsmanship's ultimate achievement is the absence of the sword in both hand and heart. The swordsman is at peace with the rest of the world. He vows not to kill and to bring peace to mankind. King of Qin

• Plans just make you think something's gonna get better. Cynthia Webb

• Now imagine. Imagine how different how righteous this little world could be if we had the right words for our faith. The people would truly understand why they're here and what they're doing, and they wouldn't need any uglier motivations. Bill Carnegie

• Most guys freeze. That's your cerebral cortex looking for an answer it doesn't have. Your blood is filling with adrenaline. Whether you know it or not, your heart's beating faster. It's getting a little harder to breathe. Your neurobiological system is telling you to run, but your knees are too weak to move. And it's too late anyway. Pores on your skin have already opened up,  secreting an imperceptible amount of pheromones into the air. Ranger
  
  
• Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist... Danger is very real. But fear is a choice. We are all telling ourselves a story. General Cypher Raige
  

TV series

• Country Music is the poetry of the people, unaffected, heartfelt. It has great strength and beauty. And if you love the tender muscle of the English language, you have to love a man for simply saying 'you are always on my mind'. (Constable Renfield Turnbull, Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
  

• You make me feel so important, I forgot what I was going to say! Lieutenant Columbo

• Columbo:

            ―Doris Buckner: Roger, I called the Commissioner of Police, and he said he'd send over his very best man.
            ―Roger Stanford: [looking Columbo over] Is that a fact?
            ―Lt. Columbo: Well, my wife, she says I'm second-best, but, uh... She claims there are eighty fellas tied for first.

• You won't take any of that personally, will you? 'That difference of opinion between men'. It sometimes happens. (Col. Lyle C. Rumford))
  

• Good lawyers worry about facts, great lawyers worry about their opponents. Harvey Specter, JD
  

• You're calling attention to your bosom by wearing a low-cut top. Dr House

• This is great. Look at me. Out in the real world of ordinary people, just living their ordinary, colorless, workaday lives...thank you, ordinary person. (Dr Sheldon Cooper)

• Your whole life is in here [in your heart], compressed into a single point in space and time. So, no matter what direction you step, your destination is the same. (Bob Fraser [sergeant of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police])
  

Philosopy

• Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie. Carl Jung

• Our needs are limited, but our desires are endless. I may need only two shirts, but I want to have 20, 30... Either for my ego, or my greed, or to impress other people.

• Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu
  
  
• The Tao does nothing, yet leaves nothing undone. Tao Te Ching

• Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde

Cricket (insect) experts

• There are height primary traditional hobbies in China: music, Chinese chess, calligraphy, painting; and keeping flower, birds, fish and insects. Zhao Boguang

• Mankind and cricket are the same. They both are bionts. So they are affected by the six factors in nature. Bai Feng (白峰)

Other

• The longer I live the more I would like to put the world in suspension and grip the present before it's eaten by the next second and becomes the past. A painting creates an illusion of an eternal present, a place where my eyes can rest as if the clock has magically stopped ticking. Siri Hustvedt

• A bite of meat, a sip of wine. That's true satisfaction. Uncle Rural Gourmet

• Read carefully, and absorb the implications of what is the most important debate of your life. (M. G. & J. A.)
  

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