"This is President Obamaâ€™s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect."

-- Michele Bachmann

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“The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one.”

Source : Thomas Young, John Leitch (1855). “Miscellaneous Works of the Late Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c: And One of the Eight Foreign Associates of the National Institute of France. Vols. I. & II., Including His Scientific Memoirs, &c”, p.181
“Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.”
“The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.”
“Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense.”
“I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.”
“Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point...”

Source : Quint Studer (2010). “Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top”, p.106, John Wiley & Sons
“[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.”
“A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.”

Source : Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press

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