"While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country."

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Source : "Taking Veterans’ Concerns Seriously" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2014.

Marc Veasey

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“Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.”
“The actor becomes an emotional athlete.”
“We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.”
“Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.”
“If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”
“My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.”

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