"For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview."

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Source : "Obama’s Speech: Guns and Government" by Amy Davidson Sorkin, www.newyorker.com. February 12, 2013.

Amy Davidson

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“That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.”

Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
“One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right.”
“Much of our lives involves the word â€œno.â€ In school we are mostly told, â€œDon't do it this way. Do it that way.â€ But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.”
“I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.”
“I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.”
“I think that Billie (Jean King) and Zina (Garrison), they have a whole lot of experience. Even if I don't quite agree with something or have a different way of doing it this week, whatever they said, I did it right away and I found out that it was correct. I think that's helped a lot...I'm having fun. I had a lot of fun out there. Sometimes I was ready to smile -- but I knew I'd lose focus -- because I was doing things that I'd done in practice and we talked about. I was ready to laugh and give someone a high-five, but it wasn't time for that.”
“Once people learn, it is hard to forget and go back.”

Source : "Animal Advocate and Author Karen Dawn: The Welfare of Animals and the Earth". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.”

Source : William Kidd, Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty (1936). “The tryal of Capt. William Kidd for murther & piracy upon six several indictments: as also the tryals of Nicholas Churchill, James Howe, Robert Lamley, William Jenkins, Gabriel Loff, Hugh Parrot, Abel Owens, Richard Barlicorn, & Darby Mullins, at the Admiralty sessions held at the Old Bailey, London, on the 8th & 9th of May, 1701”

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