"America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy."

-- Jimmy Carter

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“The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. Everything I've done ends up working in my favor. Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.”

Source : Interview with Lauren Bans, www.gq.com. September 20, 2011.
“I need players to start thinking for themselves.”

Source : Source: dutchsoccersite.org
“What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.”

Source : Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.22, Profile Books
“I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.”

Source : FaceBook post by George Strait from Mar 27, 2014
“I can remember a game, we were down with about 5 to 10 points, I go off about 25 points, we come back and win the game, we're walking off the floor. Tex (Winter) looks at me and says "There's no "I" in team!" I looked at Tex and say, "There's not, but there's an 'I' in win!”
“I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, itâ€™s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isnâ€™t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. Iâ€™d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.52, Macmillan
“Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.”

Source : Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press
“There’s no better way to energize your body, mind, and spirit than by taking care of yourself.”

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