I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones. - Isabel Allende

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Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

Isabel Allende

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

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You spend the first part of your life collecting things. . . and the second half getting rid of them.

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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape. . . . For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

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Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

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It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. . . . If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles. . . they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.

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