"and just like that, I shut off the switch to my brain."

-- Becca Fitzpatrick

“This is the complacency I have run into.”
“Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.”
“Boys don't cry, but men do.”
“Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.”
“There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.9, Broadview Press
“New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.”
“Did Lovelace's forces find you? Did Jabor break in?" He spoke slowly through clenched teeth. "I went to get a newspaper" This is getting better and better! I shook my head regretfully. "You should leave such a dangerous assignment to people better qualified: next time ask an old granny, or a toddler-”
“The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises . . . the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.”

Source : Interview in "The Detroit News", December 4, 1914.

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