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The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy. — G.H. Hardy

I shrugged and took a page from the stupid girl book and flicked my hair over my shoulder. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

But Celaena had stood in front of the that wooden door to the bedroom, listening to Yrene wash her clothes in the nearby kitchen. She found herself unable to turn away, unable to stop thinking about the would-be healer with the brown-gold hair and caramel eyes, of what Yrene had lost and how helpless she'd become. There were so many of them now - the children who had lost everything to Adarlan. Children who had now grown into assassins and barmaids, without a true place to call home, their native kingdoms left to ruin and ash.
Magic had been gone all these years. And the gods were dead, or simply didn't care anymore. Yet there, deep in her gut, was a small but insistent tug. A tug on a strand of some invisible web. So Celaena decided to tug back, just to see how far and wide the reverberations would go. — Sarah J. Maas

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. — Plato

It's clever, but is it art? — Rudyard Kipling

You have to be professional and think about the future. — Jamie Redknapp

With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard — Nicolas Cage

I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power. — Allen Ginsberg

For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time. — Shirley Jackson

The Law of Unconditional Loving is a tough taskmaster. Once we taste the fruits of unconditional loving, we cannot go backward, we cannot become "unaware" ever again. — Greg Anderson

We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality. — Todd Wagner

Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. — Nirmala Srivastava

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world. — Suzi Quatro

The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise. — Steven Pinker