"Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage."

-- Theophile Gautier

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“[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.”
“As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have earned the wrath of voters, who will learn in due course how inadequate the nostrums of liberal Democrats are to the crisis of our times. If I cannot in good faith cast a vote against the Bush years by voting for Obama, I can at least do so by withholding my vote from McCain.”
“The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.”
“I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.”
“I donâ€™t know what it is that Iâ€™m doing, but Iâ€™m really enjoying myself. And Iâ€™m free to do it as much as I want.”
“Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
“Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.”

Source : Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor
“A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.”

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