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Alexander McCall Smith Quotes: I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
         

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.


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There is room in history for all of us.



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I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.



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Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.



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We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.



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There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.



A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

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