"The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator..."

-- Mikhail Bulgakov

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“Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the landler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver.”

Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
“I happen to be a three-time former WWF Champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room.”
“Fifty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama is Muslim. And 66 percent of Trump voters believe President Obama is Muslim. If you hear anyone trying to explain the rise of Donald Trump without including that fact, then you`re hearing someone who doesn`t know what they`re talking about.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously”
“They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.”
“There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.21
“In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.”
“Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The second is that he's trying to pad his legacy. The third is that he's trying to 'troll' or bait the GOP into debating his agenda rather than pursuing its own. All are plausible, and none necessarily contradicts the others.”

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