"Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible."

-- Josephus Daniels

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“Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.”
“My basic political philosophy is, I ain't mad at that. Which basically means I don't have to have a strong opinion about everything. I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes I'm just not mad at it. Like, What do you think about gay marriage? I ain't mad at you, you're gay and you're married: I ain't mad at you, go do it.”

Source : "Larry Wilmore on Race, Politics, and Mormonism". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. August 24, 2012.
“Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.”

Source : Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.479, Delphi Classics
“Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me.”
“Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.”
“How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.”

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