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“For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. Â But I always get back again by this-I know that I trust Christ. Â I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him. Â But if He does not, I shall not. Â Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it. Â And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it.”
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“The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered”
Source : Roy Jenkins (1985). “Partnership of principle: writings and speeches on the making of the alliance”, Secker & Warburg
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“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
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“Not only is holiness the goal of your redemption, it is necessary for your redemption”
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“Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain; Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies!”
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“Smoking's a way to let you down slowly from a ballgame. It also makes you use less of the resources around. It makes people better in the way they act towards society. Everybody's nicer. It's hard to be mean when you're stoned.”
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“Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.”
Source : "The 'Inside Politics' Interview: Sen. Fred Thompson". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. May 19, 1998. 
