"But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue."

-- Jack Newfield

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“The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public â€“ how can we specify the ways in which the killer was not â€œone of usâ€? When the shooter comes from a racial or religious group, this is a relatively simple if despicable enterprise. When they are just another white male, the only remaining option is to locate a disability diagnosis.”
“There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.”
“A little magic can take you a long way.”

Source : Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.161, Penguin
“One time I covered a wall with 8.5Ã—11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.”
“I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of the koan, this one is not different from myself. I know this mountain because I am this mountain, I can feel it breathing at this moment, as its grass tops stray against the snows. If the snow leopard should leap from the rock above and manifest itself before me - S-A-A-O! - then in that moment of pure fright, out of my wits, I might truly perceive it, and be free.”
“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.”
“The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self.”

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