"Many are called but few get up."

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Source : Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.16, BookRix

Oliver Herford

“Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.”

Source : "Sonia Sotomayor Faces Senate For Her Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. July 13, 2009.
“I love pain. Love pain.”
“I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.”
“A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.”

Source : Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr
“God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.”
“Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.”
“Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.”
“In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own; for men in general are very much alike, and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same; and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases, or offends you in others will engage, disgust, please or offend others in you.”

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