"Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up."

-- Judith Guest

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“I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern.”
“Love is a wonderful, terrible thing”
“Winning ugly is still winning.”
“It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that is, not liked but . . . how to put it . . . was interested, or whatever.”
“The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.”
“I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.”

Source : Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.10, PublicAffairs
“Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”
“Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop, I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop, Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top, Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closin the shop”

Source : "Song: 'We Can Get Down'". 1993.

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