"Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena."

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Source : "Dems Need to Houseclean" by Deroy Murdock, www.nationalreview.com. January 6, 2003.

Robert Byrd

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“It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.”
“Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.”
“I’ve had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition, and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.”

Source : "Why I Walked Away From the NBA (Video)" by Larry Sanders, www.theplayerstribune.com. February 25, 2015.
“Hereâ€™s the dangerous thing about Jesus: Heâ€™s not after your behaviour; heâ€™s after your heart. Make no mistake about it. Jesus is going to relentlessly and passionately pursue your heart. Even when your behaviour tricks everybody else, it just doesnâ€™t trick Jesus. Heâ€™s coming after the heart.”
“While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.”
“Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.”
“I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.”

Source : Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy (2002). “Collected Works”, p.415, Univ of California Press
“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.”

Source : "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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