"There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one."

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Well, talking about Ethiopia is like talking about the whole continent. A month ago we played against AIDS and famine. We also played in Dakar. It is not only the music which is playing an important role on this issue of problems affecting Africa, but the activities of doctors, sportsmen and journalists are also helping in various ways.”
“I am the doctor of our family, and I am a big fan of homeopathy.”
“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”
“Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued him to the end. He was supremely a part of the world he described, so much a part that he made himself its king and then, when he saw it begin to crumble, he crumbled with it and led it to death.”
“The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is.”
“I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too.”
“If the primary ends up being a hard hitting, bloody battle, well so be it. Let's get ready for the general election”
“At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.”

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