"It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people."

-- Tom DeLay

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“Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great”

Source : FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Jun 05, 2013
“Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.”
“I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.”
“The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or fourth or twentieth time!”
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my childrenâ€™s letters â€” sometimes very hastily â€” but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, â€œDear Jim: I loved your card.â€ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, â€œJim loved your card so much he ate it.â€ That to me was one of the highest compliments Iâ€™ve ever received. He didnâ€™t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

Source : "Maurice Sendak and childhood — we ate it up, we loved it". www.washingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.
“Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.”
“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.”
“Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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