"It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains."

-- Patrick Henry

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“[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.”
“We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.”
“There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves.”
“We talked about it. An assistant coach suggested fouling, but I rejected it because I was afraid we'd foul them shooting and get beat that way. Hindsight couldn't have been worse than what happened to us.”
“These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout line at a supermarket and, yes, at a memorial service, reaching for a device becomes so natural that we start to forget that there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts: It does honor to what we are thinking about. It does honor to ourselves.”
“Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.”
“I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.”

Source : "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.
“But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at dataâ€”something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.”

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