"Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the stadium. They are supposed to be zany, nomadic soldiers of fortune who are involved in wild endeavors during every waking moment."

-- Brock Yates

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“It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.”
“Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.”
“No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.”

Source : "Song: 'Constant Sorrow'". 1951.
“No woman gets an ***** from shining the kitchen floor.”
“You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.”
“I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.”
“The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.”
“I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.”

Source : Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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