"Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat."

-- Alexis De Veaux

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“Theodore Roosevelt is of singular interest, because he was, in many evident ways, a self-created figure. He transformed his life into performance art. He intended his life to be an example for others to learn from or even emulate.”
“I think the only thing that matters is you win as a team and you lose as a team. And so the team needs to understand that no one player is bigger than any other player. Everybody has a role... Every single role is important.”
“Sometimes, the girls hug all boys except me, and I just smile, but it hurts.”
“I truly believe Donald Trump is not a true conservative. His values as a Republican or a self-described Republican, when he mocks the disabled, when he really badly stumbles when asked about David Duke and the KKK, when he says that he admires Vladimir Putin and then quotes the dictator Francisco Mussolini - this is unfathomable to me that this is the type of individual who leads the party that I love.”
“People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.”
“Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy.”
“For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.”
“There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.”

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