"Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance."

-- Jefferson Davis

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“As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.”
“When I find a short-seller, I want to tear his heart out and eat it before his eyes while he is still alive.”

Source : "Can't work through stress? Tough luck if you are poor" by Catherine Bennett, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2013.
“Many priests say that retirement is more identified with freedom from meetings, budgets, personnel conflicts, and "dealing with the Chancery." Even as I struggled not to take that last point too personally, I was reminded that I have heard the same sentiment from many of my bishop friends as well!”
“Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families that we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the "Wild West" began.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.38, U of Nebraska Press
“I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.”
“Deeds, not words shall speak me.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Mr. Seward, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Sidrach Simpson (1750). “The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.404
“Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.”
“I've become less angry and a little more humble by age and by experience and by going through the ups and downs of life.”

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