"I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."

-- Abraham Lincoln

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“Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.”

Source : Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.15, University of Chicago Press
“In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.”

Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 4, 2006.
“The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.”
“I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desertâ€”under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like homeâ€“not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors.Â How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away.Â How you can fall in love with the light.”
“You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.”
“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.”
“I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.”

Source : "Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.
“The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.”

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