"First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path."

-- Jim Cooper

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“Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question - 'How is the food?'”
“The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.”
“Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.”
“I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at 18, and I think that was mainly because web developing and management was a really young industry.”
“The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.
“They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.”
“Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.”

Source : William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”
“The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.”

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