"I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians."

-- Patton Oswalt

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“I lead with my heart all the time.”
“Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights.”

Source : Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, 130 S. Ct. 2971, 3015-16, 2010.
“Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.”
“What man can imagine he may one day achieve.”

Source : Nancy Hale (1977). “The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing”, Greenwood Press
“As soon as I learned what the smell of bacon was, I learned how to make it.”
“It's organic. It's like a river. One stream comes in and it meets another stream and becomes the Amazon.”
“Suppose there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other thing which he understands quite well. By comparing them he may come to understand the thing which he could not understand up to that moment. If his understanding turns out to be appropriate and nobody else has ever come to such an understanding, he can claim that his thinking was really creative.”
“A skater goes through a lot of different feelings during a competition. Staying calm is the key point. You feel a little anxious, a little nervous, a little unsettled. That's when you've got to trust your feelings, trust your abilities. Believe in what you have worked for so long to achieve. Have faith in yourself.”

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