Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature. - Jasper Fforde

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Different people describe me in a different ways. Some describe me as the living Buddha. Nonsense. Some describe me as 'God-king. ' Nonsense. Some consider me as a demon or a wolf in Buddhist robes. That also, I think nonsense.

Jasper Fforde

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

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Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

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Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

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Strategy is all about combining choices of what to do and what not to do into a system that creates the requisite fit between what the environment needs and what the company does.

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Al Pacino

It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

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Malcolm Gladwell

Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. This is the critical lesson of improve, too, and it is also a key to understanding a puzzle of Millennium Challenge: spontaneity isn't random.

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