"It's discouraging how hard it is for a President to slice away large chunks of a $305 billion budget."

-- Gerald R. Ford

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“Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do with if you have faith in Jesus Christ.”
“Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.”
“The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.”
“Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.”
“Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to driving a long distance rather than flying. While driving, we see the country instead of racing over it. There's a human scale that flying cannot offer.”
“I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.”

Source : "An Open Letter to Joe the Plumber from Don the Factory Worker" by Donald Ray Pollock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.
“Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.”
“It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.”

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