"I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me."

-- Paula Poundstone

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“First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.”

Source : George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.194, U of Nebraska Press
“But when you get to a higher level of consciousness, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else.”
“blessing the boats (at saint maryâ€™s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that”

Source : Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.
“You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.”
“I like the classic look. Keep it simple. Thereâ€™s only so much you can wear.”
“The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error and prejudice.”
“I'm sharp. What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.”
“About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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