"I could sit toe to toe at a potato table with anybody."

-- Stephen Colbert

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“The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly”
“Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.”
“I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was.”
“Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent.”

Source : "Metaphorically speaking". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2009.
“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”

Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “The Storyteller: A Novel”, p.61, Macmillan
“Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?”
“Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.”

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