"The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it."

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Source : Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

Bella Abzug

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“Colin Montgomerie is a few French fries short of a Happy Meal.”
“If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary character of these evangelical anecdotes, still leans to the historical interpretation, whether natural or supernatural; that mind must be alike ignorant of the true character both of legend and of history, of the natural and the supernatural.”

Source : David Friedrich Strauss, George Eliot (1860). “The life of Jesus critically examined”, p.339
“Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.”
“I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.”
“I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone.”
“Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.”
“The way I look it is hard to look like a normal person. You know, in the streets when I was a kid, people always said I looked strange, and it made me feel unhappy.”
“Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.”

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