"It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work."

-- David Sedaris

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“Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.”
“A room without books is like a life without meaning.”
“Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.”
“The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.”
“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”
“When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. Thereâ€™s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.”
“There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.”

Source : The Last Lecture, 2008.

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