"Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it."

-- Alice Walker

“I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.”
“It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.”
“You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.”
“Life is full of all sorts of people. You just need to know which hands to shake, which hands to hold and which hands to let go.”
“What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?”
“If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.”
“You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.”
“I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.”

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