The more one gets the more one wants

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What do you want?” Boyd whispered.“You—

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

The exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his foolish choices a man learns to choose more wisely next time.

Who you become is determined by how you pray

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

Don't be a salad. Be the best god damn broccoli you can ever be.

The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.