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“To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.”
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“Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.”
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“Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.”
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“I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.”
Source : "Paulson’s Actions Raise Serious Ethical Questions" by Mike Quigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.
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“Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.”
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“I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.”
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“"The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."”
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“In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively”
Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”