"That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each."

-- Dick Thornburgh

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“Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.”
“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”

Source : Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.132, Macmillan
“I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.”
“The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment â€“ to put things down without deliberation â€“ without worrying about their style â€“ without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote â€“ wrote, wroteâ€¦By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.”
“The thing I want to really say is that I still mess up. I still go out there and say things on TV that I know the Lord is like, 'Sherri what are you doing?' but I know I can go back and get on my knees and say, 'Lord forgive me.' I know he will never leave me nor forsake me. The wonderful thing is He answers my prayers in spite of me.”
“I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.”
“If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.”

Source : Paul Beatty (2016). “The Sellout”, p.136, Oneworld Publications
“It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.”

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