"I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me."

-- Aleksandar Hemon

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“I think the president has a very good idea of who the leakers are inside the White House. The president has a very good idea of the people that are undermining his agenda that are serving their own interests.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“Tone can be as important as text.”
“I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.”
“For each person there is a sentenceâ€”a series of wordsâ€”which has the power to destroy them.”
“The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.”
“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.”

Source : "Taking Veterans’ Concerns Seriously" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2014.
“It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.”

Source : "My Kid Could Paint That". Documentary, Family, Mystery, www.imdb.com. 2007.
“A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow”

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