"The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best."

-- Colin Powell

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“We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“Au revoir, pidgeon. Sweeting is such part sorrow.”
“If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by contrasting social, economic, and cultural condition in which the three had to operate. In other words, they resulted from tactical adaptation of the same philosophy of government to local circumstances, not from different philosophies.”

Source : "Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime". Book by Richard Pipes, 1993.
“I think it was the one thing I didnâ€™t like about him or about guys in general: when a girl says she doesnâ€™t want to talk about it, the truth is that she usually does. I wanted him to pry it out of me. Of course, I wouldâ€™ve pretended to be a little angry that he didnâ€™t just leave me alone, but eventually I wouldâ€™ve told him, when I was tired of pretending.”
“But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. ... It doesn't come to you on the wings of a dove. It's something you have to work hard at.”

Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr
“In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.”
“If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 12, 2016

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