"What goes up, must come down... Mustn't it?"

-- Siobhan Dowd

“Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.”
“A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.”

Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
“Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies, Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies: The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays, On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays; Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume, Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.”

Source : Phillis Wheatley (2008). “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.”
“Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.”
“Hope you're working hard, because I am!!!”
“Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.”
“The Clintons opposed gay marriage. They did don't ask, don't tell. They did the Defense of Marriage Act.”

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