"My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing."

-- Diana Vreeland

“It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.”
“The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.”
“There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.”
“An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.”

Source : Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”
“The Niagara on a bicycle. It's like trying to cross the Niagara on a bicycle, which is impossible, but it's an expression in the Dominican Republic that basically says that someone is going through a hard time.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.”
“I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.”

Source : "Watchtower Actor Aleks Paunovic: Getting out of his own way, and the importance of trying". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.”

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