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• Jack Youngblood

  You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

• Burton Rascoe

  A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life--what people are interested in. That's journalism.

• Joseph Campbell

  What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

• Rogers Turrentine

  There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know they're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again.

• Marlin Finch Lupus

  We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.

• George A. Smith

  We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. George A. Smith

• Searamouche

  What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.