"I had other priorities in the sixties than military service."

-- Dick Cheney

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“I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.”

Source : "'New Girl': Josh Gad on His Unsuccessful Romancing of Jess in the Season 2 Premiere" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 25, 2012.
“As one needs happiness so have I needed love; that is the deepest need of the human spirit. And as I love you utterly, so have you now become the whole world of my spirit. It is beside and beyond anything that you can ever do for me; it lies in what you are, dear love - to me so infinitely lovely that to be near you, to see you, hear you, is now the only happiness, the only life, I know.”
“Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.”
“Over a period of 11 months I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.”

Source : "Laura Dekker: a heroine for our times" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.
“Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.”
“This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (2014). “Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience”, p.50, Courier Corporation
“If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.”
“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.”

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