"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isnt that really quite incredible?”
“I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.”
“There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings.”
“Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.”

Source : Ralph Connor (1917). “The Major”
“That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of the stranger cultural ironies of our time. If you've bought one thing on the net, the newest and most prodigiously high-tech communications system imaginable, then it is almost certain to be a book, the oldest and simplest.”
“I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.”

Source : "Bertiespeak: Blasts From the Past". www.independent.ie. July 05, 2007.
“I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.”
“Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.”

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