"The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen."

-- Harry Reid

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“I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.94, A&C Black
“Power's twin is responsibility ...”

Source : WILLA GIBBS (1954). “THE TWELFTH PHYSICIAN”
“Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe”
“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.”
“With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.”

Source : "Blinded by the light: James Turrell obliterates the senses in stunning new Mona wing". Interview with Brigid Delaney, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2018.
“Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.”

Source : David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage
“The only tactics I admire are do-or-die”
“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.”

Source : Mark Mathabane (1986). “Kaffir boy: the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South Africa”, Macmillan Pub Co

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