"As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds."

-- Charles Rangel

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“With sports, you get the results back right away. With life, it's not always so black and white.”
“Still. Smokers out there, you know what I'm talking about. That moment, after you've had a huge meal, say at Thanksgiving, when you step outside in the cold, light up a cigarette and take a deep inhale ... that's about the best moment in the world, you know? All the smokers out there, you know that feeling. Sometimes, smoking is fantastic.”

Source : "Jim Leyland, America's Role Model". deadspin.com. October 3, 2005.
“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins [wise men or priests in the Vedic tradition] express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as â€œI am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world.”
“Be patient and gentle with yourself as you continue to learn new ways of eating and living. There is no need for hard-and-fast rules or white-knuckle determination. Keep leaning forward into the positive changes you are making, and then apply that same gentleness to your family and community.”
“As far as my personal nostalgia zone goes, I find I watch more of AntennaTV than anything else.”

Source : "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. December 24, 2015.
“Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.”
“You might catch me dozing off, but only for a minute. For a second.”
“We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.”

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