"I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did."

-- Roscoe Arbuckle

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“How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?”
“I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.”
“..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.”
“We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”
“Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt our materials and mode of instruction to their level of ability. But we miseducate young children when we assume that their learning abilities are comparable to those of older children and that they can be taught with materials and with the same instructional procedures appropriate to school-age children.”

Source : David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.”
“There are no races. Only lotteries.”
“I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.”

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