"I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk."

-- Sidney Lanier

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“Sorry can be the hardest word when you know you're wrong.”

Source : Song: Over, Album: Come Closer, 2006
“Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.”
“If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it boring when collectors found their own private museums or try to establish a memorial to themselves in the form of their collections, it's part of the old aristocratic mentality. I think a collection ought to be dismantled after the collector's death.”
“Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
“The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.”
“It looks like bribery. I mean,there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20 percent of America's uranium production to Russia, and then it was covered up by lying about a meeting with her home with the principals, and by erasing e-mails. And I presume we might know for sure whether there was or was not bribery if she hadn't wiped out you know, out thousands of e-mails.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 01, 2013
“Putin imagined it would be different. So, like many Russian leaders before him, he imagined that Ukraine was basically Russia, but they speak with a funny accent. Actually, it's not Russia; it has a different identity. It has a very different language. Russians don't automatically understand Ukrainian. And, in particular, the way Ukraine has developed over the last two decades is different from the way Russia has developed.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com

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