"Everybody dies â€¦ The thing is, to have a life before we die."

-- John Irving

“It was a new kind of class war -- the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.”
“In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.”
“Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.”

Source : "Steve Carell Braves His 'Office' Job" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2005.
“Global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends,”

Source : 'Pat Sajak: “global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists”' by Jason Somenow, www.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2014.
“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
“I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart.”

Source : Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.18, Univ of California Press
“The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.”

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