"You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all."

-- Jonathan Lethem

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“Donald Trump is a man who was the star of a network reality show that helped to create templates for the abysmally biased way in which women and people of color, in particular women of color, have been treated in reality TV for the last decade and a half.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.”

Source : Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.
“What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.”
“What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.”

Source : "Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters". Book by Osamu Tezuka, 1983.
“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.”
“We left no doubt that we are one heartbeat And something like that is pretty hard to stop Once it gets going”
“The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.”
“There are many serious and knotty issues that I must face each day, but the Pope Francis reminds me by his example and his words that Christ has already redeemed creation and we are saved, even when that might not be so obvious because of the world's many problems and our own grievous sinfulness.”

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