"God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat."

-- H. L. Mencken

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“First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.”
“Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.”
“The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.”

Source : Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1921). “The Harp of God: Proof Conclusive that Millions Now Living Will Never Die; a Text-book for Bible Study Specially Adapted for Use of Beginners; with Numerous Questions and Scripture Citations ...”
“Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.”

Source : Interview with Heidi Holland, December 2007.
“Thatâ€™s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break the cycle of relativity.”

Source : "The Successful Woman : How You Can Have a Career, a Husband, and a Family - and Not Feel Guilty About It" by Joyce Brothers, (p. 18), 1988.
“You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will bring it out of you. You're always stripping yourself down to the bones of your personality. And sometimes you just get a glimpse of the kind of talent you've been given. Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that.”
“Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.”
“Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.”

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