"I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain."

-- Abraham Lincoln

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“There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. Next to that, all the rules and religions in the world are secondary; mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by. My life won't be lived that way, and neither, I hope, will my children's.”
“When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.”

Source : "Ecstasy: The Complete Guide: A Comprehensive Look at the Risks and Benefits of MDMA". Book by Julie Holland, 2001.
“Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.”
“Iâ€™m not going to pick her up and carry her screaming to the basement,â€ Trent said. â€œItâ€™s a workday. Besides, she has a crutch.â€ â€œCrutch or no, sheâ€™s hurt!â€ Ceri protested. â€œI mean,â€ Trent said intently, â€œshe can hit me with it if I do something she doesnâ€™t like.”
“I was really lucky to have an opportunity to direct a horror anthology. It kind of fell into my lap before I was really prepared, which was nice, but I feel like I could've done a lot more in retrospect. So if I do direct again, I'm going to do my homework.”
“Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”
“Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom”
“Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.”

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