"I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get."

-- Blanche Lincoln

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“I think the challenge of climate change in particular is the challenge for us to create and produce new norms for a new kind of world. And that's why I think as important as the issue of climate change is, it's even more important than it seems because if we can't evolve very quickly, new norms to deal with issues like climate change, we're not going to be able to survive in the kind of world we've created. So I think, really, the whole nature of democracy, of governance, of global community and of solving the kinds of problems of the 21st Century are really at stake.”
“Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ...”
“Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, words and thoughts: daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. It is these, like the blinding colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the person.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 46), 1895.
“For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?'”
“I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.”

Source : Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Art Institute of Chicago, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (2006). “Charles Sheeler: across media”, University of California Press
“The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.”
“There is only one winning strategy. It is to carefully define the target market and direct a superior offering to that target market.”
“That perfect day, that magic moment that we're all waiting for, is right now.”

Source : "Interview with Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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