"There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power."

-- J. William Fulbright

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“Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.”

Source : unknown
“Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.”
“Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.”
“New York has become an example of everything that is wrong with America. White Americans, fearing the crime and social alienation in New York City, commute endless hours to raise their families in safe, clean neighborhoods. The numbers of non-Americans, especially those from the Third World, are growing, and it is the hard working White New Yorker that pays the bill.”
“If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos.”
“My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl.”

Source : Julie Kagawa (2011). “The Iron Knight”, p.12, Harlequin
“If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.”

Source : Suzette Haden Elgin (1980). “The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense”, Prentice Hall
“It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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