"Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated."

-- Tennessee Williams

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“Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.”
“I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.”

Source : Thomas De Witt Talmage (1896). “The Earth Girdled: The World as Seen To-day...Embracing Scenes and Experiences Among Semi-civilized as Well as Cultured Peoples of the World”
“I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot - and it's not that I believe my taste is superior , I just can not believe that other people don't care.”

Source : "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.
“If you pay attention to where your exposures are, you might tend up buying credit default swaps against a variety of people that you - companies that you deal with.”
“I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.”
“I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.”
“You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.”
“Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.”

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