"I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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“But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.”
“If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!”

Source : Robin Cook (2011). “Crisis”, p.63, Pan Macmillan
“I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'”
“You can get tested now for early onset Alzheimer's. Hold on a second, could someone hire a marching band, cause I'm so happy I feel like having a parade. You mean I can find out early if I'm going to die of a super horrible disease that there's no cure for? Well, whoopee!”
“Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.”

Source : "Todd Akin Apologizes For ‘Legitimate Rape’ Remark, Won’t Drop Out" by Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2012.
“I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.”
“It is one of the glories of America that we move to higher levels of awareness.”
“I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me. That is one of the great things about sports, and frankly, football really does instill that.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

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