"This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans."

-- Peggy Noonan

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“With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.”
“We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.”
“It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.”
“My biggest competition is always myself. I mean no disrespect, but I do not look at any of the guys as being my competition for the simple reason that I can't control how they're going to look. I can only control how I look.”
“Holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night!”

Source : Song: Holding Out For A Hero
“It's been by turns frustrating and fascinating and wonderful beyond imagination. If what I suspect is true, it's one of the most important milestones in human history to acknowledge that we are not alone in the universe.”

Source : "Is The Proof Out There, Too?". Rocky Mountain News, June 06, 1999.
“Courage and fear were one thing too.”
“The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.”

Source : Slavoj Žižek (2014). “Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism”, p.170, Penguin UK

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