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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will t

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. – Michael Ondaatje

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Thats Anils path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. – Michael Ondaatje

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Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues. – Jesse James Garrett

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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. – Ezra Pound

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As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. – Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and dont discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, its stupid. Banning books shows you dont trust your kids to think and you dont trust yourself to be able to talk to them. – Anna Quindlen

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