"Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color."

-- Frederick Douglass

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“And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.”
“Welcome to 'Who's Line Is It Anyway' the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right the points are just like Canada.”
“There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.”
“But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.”
“I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather.”
“Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.”

Source : Philip Whalen, Michael Rothenberg (2007). “The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen”, p.415, Wesleyan University Press
“... everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop ..”

Source : "Pearls of Wisdom". Las Vegas Sun Interview, lasvegassun.com. January 1, 2005.
“And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows form out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of binds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny. -from Commentaries on the Prophecies of the Dragon, by Jurith Dorine, Right Hand to the Queen of Almoren, 742 AB, the Third Age”

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