"A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler."

-- William Greider

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“Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.”
“What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.”

Source : "Dispatches From the Set – Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd". Interview on The Set, www.amc.com. 2010.
“Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior.”

Source : Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.57, Macmillan
“No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.”
“You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.”
“Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.”

Source : "Archaeopteryx: Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms" by V. Morell, February 5, 1993.
“I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.”
“Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.”

Source : Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.52

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