"the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers."

-- Mary Ritter Beard

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“I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.”
“Until you announce me as the #1 contender for the WWE Championship, I suggest you watch me make snow angels.”
“In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!”

Source : "Mengistu Haile Mariam: The Profile of a Dictator". Ethiopian Review, February 1994.
“Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.”
“A beam of God's countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek of a dying saint with seraphic brightness, and make the heart of the lone widow sing for joy.”
“Gojyo: That no good holy man's been rubbing off on you! Goku: Me? Like Sanzo?! What a rotten thing to say!”
“But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.”
“Not everything you're going to do in volleyball - or in life, for that matter - is exciting or fully functional, but if you have the willpower to make each minute count, you'll benefit in some way. And it will make you a better player and a better person in the long run.”

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