"Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport."

-- Michael Nutter

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“Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want? Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday, I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: I love you! Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as you live.”

Source : "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.
“Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.”

Source : James Hogg (2016). “Collected Works of James Hogg: Novels, Scottish Mystery Tales & Fantasy Stories: Scottish Classics: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Three Perils of Man, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, The Shepherd’s Calendar and Other Tales”, p.151, e-artnow
“Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent of the placental Mammalia. It is as if nature herself had forseen the arrogance of man, and with Roman severity had provided that his intellect, by its very triumphs, should call into prominence the slaves, admonishing the conqueror that he is but dust.”
“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”
“Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife Fund Executive Vice President, stating the need to conserve biodiversity, even plants and animals having no immediate use, as a unique repository of genes for possible future biogengineering applications.”
“My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.”
“The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection”
“It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.”

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