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“Mistakes you make during your struggles, are not the shame of your life, they are the cornerstones of clarity and conviction. Never try to hide your imperfect past, trying to adapt to perfectionist fantasy. Machines are produced in the assembly line, without past, without flaws, not life.”

“Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?”

“Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.”

“Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcone inquired. "The plural could be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural.”

“Mister Pope continued, “Now there are cliffs on both coasts. There’s an ocean on either coast. I mean, you are a bird. You aren’t the smartest creature on earth. Now, you, silly bird, find yourself the only bird like you on the west coast. No Valentine’s Day for you.” Hands went up. “How did it get here?” Sidney Tucker asked from behind her oversized glasses. “No one knows,” Mister Pope smiled. “How come no one knows,” Kevin Abbott asked. “Well, there are a bunch of theories, but no one can be certain,” Mister Pope said. “So, there’s only one of these birds on the west coast right now,” Wendy Henderson asked.” Excerpt From JUST ONE MO Mark T. Sneed This material may be protected by copyright.”

“Mister Rogers took his viewers on this little journey to show that even in the face of death, things move ahead. That's the essential message as he sits by the fish grave. Rogers never told grieving children that everything will be all right: no such simplistic reassurances. Instead he shared his feelings about death and loss, and the extraordinary truth, reaffirmed repeatedly throughout the program, that life does go on.”