"You are what you are when nobody is looking."

-- Abigail Van Buren

“If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.”
“A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.”

Source : Augustine Birrell (1922). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”
“To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.”
“I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.”
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
“Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar and the fine distinctions of language, I seek the part of the mind I didn't know was there, the part 'sheer,' 'no-manfathomed,' 'cliffs of fall.”
“Twenty years later, the core of Yahoo is still the same. We are driven by the same purposeâ€”to be your guide around the web. You may not know how much you motivate us every day by using our products and sharing your ideas, but you do. Thank you.”
“For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf of vested interests. ... The lobby was a creature of darkness. It worked behind closed doors and whispered in corners. This ancient industry was one form of invisible government.”

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