"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women."

-- Walt Whitman

#Life Quotes #Women Quotes #Cities Quotes

“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.”
“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.”
“Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.”
“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.
“Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.”
“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.”
“"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."”
“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”

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