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“I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly,”
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“Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.”
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“There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.”
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“I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe.”
Source : Source: www.politico.com
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“The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.”
Source : "Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School". Book by Ted Sizer, p. 95, 1984.
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“A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.”
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“For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the size of our entire economy - in the bank and earning interest right now. But it doesn't. And while many believe that Social Security represents our greatest entitlement problem, Medicare is six times larger in terms of unfunded obligations.”
Source : "A Prescription for American Health Care". imprimis.hillsdale.edu. March 2009. 
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“One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to the rails so I wouldn't fall overboard. In this lightning and thunder and hail, in this misery, I shouted at the heavens with my little squeaky voice and said, Someday I'm going to be a photographer! It was as big an epiphany as any man ever had.”
