"For a person who is dying only eternity counts."

-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel â€” Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.”
“Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.”
“In country and R&B, there's much more of that division between writers and performers, and that's where you see more of those [crossover] songs, but you don't get a lot of that coming out of the more pop and rock side of things.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.”

Source : Sean Cronin, Richard Roche, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1973). “Freedom the Wolfe Tone way”
“When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.”
“If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.”
“The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.”
“I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.”

Source : "Interview with Senator Claire McCaskill". RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 4, 2010.

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