"From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress."

-- Carl Albert

#Congress Quotes

“I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.”

Source : "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.
“I saw that all aspects of my life had been pulling me out of balance because I hadn't perceived them as part of a "whole," or the totality that was "me."”
“What i'm trying to tell you," Min said, "is that im going to grow up to be one of those chubby old ladies. It's in my genes. Like self raising flour. i'm going to pouf." "thats going to work out well for me," Cal said. "because i'm going to grow up to be one of those ***** old men who chases chubby old ladies around the couch.”
“So when people ask me if there's another one, I say, 'You know, I don't think so, but I don't know, and I kind of don't understand why'.”

Source : "‘Firefly’: Sean Maher wants Whedon to make ‘Serenity’ sequel". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 9, 2012.
“From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Sep 02, 2011
“The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.”

Source : "From Freedom to Slavery : The Rebirth of Tyranny in America". Book by Gerry Spence, 1996.
“For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, Wheres your home? I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.”
“Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort. Everything we do is to be a means of salvation. The slothful person is unwilling to do what God wants because of the effort it takes to do it. Sloth becomes a sin when it slows down and even brings to a halt the energy we must expend in using the means to salvation.”

Source : John A. Hardon (1989). “Pocket Catholic Catechism”, Image

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