I do not like people filling in for me.

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— Alex Horne

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— Phil Everly

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— Chad Hugo

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— Cory Arcangel

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— Janet Fitch

[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way…

— Gillian Tett

The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are…

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few…

— Randy West

I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This…

— Katrina Kenison

The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black…

— Mo Yan

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as…

— Patience Strong

I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me…

— Tony Blackburn