"My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad."

-- Maureen Dowd

#Years Quotes #Salad Quotes #Eating Quotes

“In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.”

Source : Bernard Bailyn (1992). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.173, Harvard University Press
“No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.”
“As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.”
“The important thing is that the principles that Senator Obama outlined originally are now embraced and taxpayers will be protected.”
“In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?”
“You should be a missile and go and destroy your opponent.”
“In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic brotherliness, unless it is among strata who are economically carefree. Under the technical and social conditions of rational culture, an imitation of the life of Buddha, Jesus, or Francis seems condemned to failure for purely external reasons.”
“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?”

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