"Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired"

-- Ellis Peters

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“Government should be a model of inclusion.”
“For my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk Nonsense, or unintelligible Sense, I am diverted and edified alike by either; the one enjoys himself less, but suffers his Friends to do it more; the other enjoys himself and his own Humour enough, but will let no body else do it in his Company.”
“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”
“I've drank more beer and pissed more blood and banged more women than all you numb nuts put together!”
“Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.”
“The comfort-women agreement that we made with Japan during the last administration is not accepted by the people of Korea, particularly by the victims. They are against this agreement. The core to resolving the issue is for Japan to take legal responsibility for its actions and to make an official apology. But we should not block the advancement of Korea-Japan bilateral relations just because of this one issue.”
“I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.”
“I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.”

Source : "The Ed Show" with Thomas Roberts, www.today.com. May 27, 2011.

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