"I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined."

-- Gail Collins

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“Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.”
“The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.”
“I don't know what to say other than you're really honored another team is looking at you.”
“No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.”
“When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 3, Estimating Portfolio Risk and Expected Return with Ad Hoc Factor Models, p. 29, 1999.
“Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.”
“A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.”

Source : "We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân". Documentary, January 10, 2011.
“Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.”

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