Quotes
Authors
Robert Toombs

"There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot."

-- Robert Toombs

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“At that point, when songs got leaked, it was cool though too because then you started getting recognition beforehand.”
“Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.”
“I think there's tremendous significance and opportunity in Americans seeing legally married gay couples treated with respect in our nation's capital.”
“I am so territorial, that [from the start] I just felt like whatever I was gonna do I was gonna write it myself, its my personal preference to always be in control of everything I do in life.”
“We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Sarah Silverman & Jimmy Kimmel" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.
“Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.”

Source : Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Jason Wright (2008). “The Christmas Sweater”, p.217, Simon and Schuster
“"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes upon the most simplistic and abstract ways of filling its vacuous self-consciousness. Not philosophy but dogma and rhetoric, not rationality but indoctrination and conditioning, provide the cultural junkfood by which the Many perfunctorily slake their thirst and hunger.”
“For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.”

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