"Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!"

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“Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation”
“Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.”
“Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.”
“Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.91, Macmillan
“Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.”
“But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of God, marred by the hand of man and must we say in the name of God? And where is the reckoning for such things? And who is answerable? One might almost shrink from the sound of his own voice, which had launched into the palpitating air words of order- do we call it? - fraught with such ruin. Was it God's command we heard or His forgiveness we must forever implore?”
“One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.”
“True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.”

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