"Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained."

-- Ulysses S. Grant

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“Truth is aÂ hellÂ of a big point with me. Now IÂ exaggerateâ€”always.”
“I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.”

Source : "Total Peace: What Makes Wars and how to Organize Peace".
“No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.11
“I've missed you, too, Graystripe. I watch over you, every day and every night.”
“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazi-ism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.”
“Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.”
“Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.”

Source : Song: Dark Turn of Mind, Album: The Harrow & The Harvest
“All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.”

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