"You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death."

-- Dick Durbin

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“Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.”
“I really liked the design aesthetic of the mid-century modern for furniture and the early '60s stuff for the clothes. But then, personally, I'm a huge fan of 1970s muscle cars. Cell phones is just a laziness thing because it's so much easier to have somebody have a cell phone than have to go to a phone booth. So we're sort of, I guess, cherry-picking the best and easiest from several decades.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.”
“I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.”
“It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.”
“Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.”
“I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.”
“Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.”

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