"What the world calls failure, I call learning."

-- Susan Vreeland

“Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.”
“But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Eating People is Wrong”, p.172, Pan Macmillan
“Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.”
“My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.”
“I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.”
“Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.”

Source : "Gregg Harper: I 'hunt' democrats". Interview with Anne Schroeder Mullins, www.politico.com. October 20, 2009.
“Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.”

Source : "Mission with LeMay: My Story". Book by Curtis E LeMay and MacKinlay Kantor, p. 561, 1965.
“Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.”

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