"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution."

-- Havelock Ellis

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“Aaron Rodgers, starting quarterback - that just has a good ring to it.”
“She's more even -[daughter China] - I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.”

Source : "The Joan Rivers Show", 1990.
“I'm not running for some Americans but for all Americans.”
“The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.”

Source : Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.82, Faber & Faber
“I'm actually more confident when I'm tan.”
“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer â€˜Tomorrow,â€™ his name is today.”

Source : "His Name is Today". Poem by Gabriela Mistral, mid 1900s.
“I like my clients. All of my clients say, "Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion." They really don't want to be talked about.”
“Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.”

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