"Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and live in relative - or absolute - comfort. In the water, that situation can get turned on its head, though. Local kids learn to surf, know the breaks, and take most or all of the best waves, fuming turistas be damned."

-- William Finnegan

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“Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.”
“Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.”
“There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.”
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

Source : Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.
“Page one is a diet, page two is a chocolate cake. It's a no-win situation....”
“The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.”

Source : "Robert Zoellick: “Getting Stuff Done” at the World Bank and Beyond" by Mark V. Vlasic, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2012.
“The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.”
“Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.”

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