"The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere."

-- Jim Hightower

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“You're never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you. There's a lot of things that come with the life you could get lost in. But you have to let it be what it is. I've learnt not to take everything too seriously.”
“If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.”
“It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.”
“That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.”
“War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but â€žtil then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.”

Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (2012). “Mahan on Naval Warfare”, p.128, Courier Corporation
“Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.”

Source : Jim Stovall (2010). “Today's the Day!”, p.42, David C Cook
“Sometimes suffering is just suffering,â€ she told Gus. â€œIt doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.”

Source : Kate Jacobs (2008). “Comfort Food”, p.123, Penguin
“I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.”

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