"It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee."

-- Cynthia Lewis

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“A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.”
“It is vitally important that our children know they are loved and safe at home”
“It's kind of strange to be a free soloist when you know so much about flying, because I'm playing two opposite games, or practicing two polar opposite arts. One is the art of not falling. The other one is flying. With both those things spinning in my mind, there's a lot to process and it's pretty mind-boggling.”

Source : Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com
“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”

Source : Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.24, Velvet Element Books
“The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion and their eloquence for their own sufferings, when the provinces were invaded and desolated by the arms of the successful Barbarians.”
“Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”
“When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.”

Source : S. Bear Bergman (2010). “Butch is a Noun”, p.66, arsenal pulp press
“Life is life. You do a lot of different things and you have great adventures but there's not a lot to talk about unless you're in the middle of an adventure at the time. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.”

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