"Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast"

-- Minna Antrim

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“My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.”

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“Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.”
“Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.”
“I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.”
“There's a Russia angle to all this, because remember, we don't have Donald Trump's tax returns. He did a very - relative summary, 104 page campaign financial disclosure. One year of tax returns, reportedly - we've seen the pictures, 12,000 pages. And tax returns are replete with his foreign interests, including, perhaps, his Russian interests. That may be the reason he doesn't want to turn over his taxes.”
“Peter (Parker) is not that evolved. Peter wants to tell the world heâ€™s a good guy: â€˜ Like me, Iâ€™m nice.â€™ Heâ€™s a 19 year-old kid. Heâ€™s a kid struggling with being misunderstood. Weâ€™ve all been misunderstood. Thatâ€™s universal too. I like being Peter,”
“The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.”
“Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).”

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