"The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven."

-- Frederick William Robertson

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“When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.”
“I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.”
“The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.”
“A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.”

Source : Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”
“It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.”

Source : "Nanci Griffith finds her voice again". Interview with Quinn Brown, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.
“Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children in America, however, see a very different picture-one in which children are victims of terrible discrimination, prejudice, and abuse. They need protection. But the protection they need most is to have the protection of civil rights, so that they can be regarded as full persons under the law.”
“The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.”
“Don't accuse me of being morbid when I'm merely the product of a culture that buries the bones of the ones they love in pretty, manicured flower gardens so they can keep them nearby and go talk to them whenever they feel troubled or depressed. That's morbid. Not to mention bizarre. Dogs bury bones, too.”

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