"No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring."

-- Maureen Johnson

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“early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!”
“I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.”
“If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for”

Source : "All Will be Well". Book by Michael Meegan, 2004.
“We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.324
“I ignore [Barack Obama] like I ignore [Louis ] Farrakhan.”
“A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.”
“Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.”

Source : John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”
“A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”

Source : "The Wilderness Act". Public Law 88-577; 16 USC 1131-1136, September 3, 1964.

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