"Words are the small change of thought."

-- Jules Renard

“I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.”

Source : "Andriy Shevchenko backs Chelsea's Fernando Torres to start scoring" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2011.
“Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.”
“Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.”
“My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.”
“I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.”
“Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.”

Source : "Black Friday shoppers turn out to get bargains". www.cnn.com. November 26, 2005.
“It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.”
“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”

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