"I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day."

-- Aimee Bender

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“Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.”
“Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.”
“Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.”
“I think that Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, all those states actually look pretty good for Hillary Clinton.”
“The bigger story here is that the fabric of the Net has changed; itâ€™s a place for people to connect up around shared interests and then collaborate towards some sort of action.”
“Iâ€™ll be back tomorrow,â€ he said, â€œat nine oâ€™clock. Donâ€™t open your door to anyone else.â€ â€œNot even my balcony door?â€ â€œEspecially not your balcony door.”
“The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.”

Source : Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.137, Stanford University Press
“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.”

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