"Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge."

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Source : Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934)

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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“Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.”
“The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.”
“I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle and I have faith and hopes in change in human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people. It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society.”
“To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.”

Source : "K'Naan On Cheapening His Music For The Money". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 10, 2012.
“Forget about whether global warming exists. My focus is on jobs.”
“Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon, Susan Brownell Anthony (2000). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873”, p.126, Rutgers University Press
“Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.”
“We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence”

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