"Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 and he tried to get Jeff Sessions` nomination through that committee, but he couldn`t."

-- Lawrence O'Donnell

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“Let the die be cast! [Greek: á¼ˆÎ½ÎµÏÏÎ¯Ï†Î¸Ï‰ ÎºÏÎ²Î¿Ï‚; contemporary Latin (mis)translation: Iacta alea est!]”
“Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.”
“I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.”

Source : Dawna Markova (1996). “The Open Mind: Exploring the 6 Patterns of Natural Intelligence”, p.187, Conari Press
“When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.”
“All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.”
“I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me”
“All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.”
“The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck”

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