"It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others."
-Alexander McCall Smith
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"My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.“
-Alexander McCall Smith
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"Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology."
-Alexander McCall Smith
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"I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side."
-Alexander McCall Smith
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"It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society."
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"Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society."
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"One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse."
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-Henry David Thoreau
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas A. Edison
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