We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. - Lynda Barry

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Improving the quality of our lives should be the ultimate target of public policies. But public policies can only deliver best fruit if they are based on reliable tools to measure the improvement they seek to produce in our lives.

Lynda Barry

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

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The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

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But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

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What year is it in your imagination?

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I was always mortified. Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

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