"The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin."

-- Alphonso Jackson

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“I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.”

Source : "Keith Olbermann: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2013.
“You can be afraid to voice your opinions but you just fight through it. It's like NIKE okay you just do it.”
“the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us. ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.451, eBookIt.com
“You've got to give someone like Cher a lot of credit. She's worked very hard to get where she is. I can't take that away from her.”
“Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.”
“An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.”
“Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.”

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