"This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security."

-- Art Buchwald

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“The schools of the country are its future in miniature.”

Source : Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”
“I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
“It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.”
“The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!”
“Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.”
“I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.”

Source : "Interview with Lorraine Bracco, Carolyn Maloney, John Dingell". "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. January 24, 2002.
“I like meat and carbohydrates.”

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