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“My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.”
Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.15, New York Review of Books
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“How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice...”
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“The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.”
Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.2
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“One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.”
Source : John Andrew Rice (2014). “I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century”, p.112, Univ of South Carolina Press
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“What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.”
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“I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.”
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“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”
Source : "With Truth as Our Sword". Book by C. E. Sylvester, February 2005.
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“The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior.”
