"Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House."

-- Nancy Pelosi

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“Jazz is about being in the moment.”

Source : Herbie Hancock, Lisa Dickey (2014). “Herbie Hancock: Possibilities”, p.10, Penguin
“There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.”
“If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.”
“You don't have to lower your morals to find love because, if you do, it's not love that you're finding.”
“What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.”

Source : Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.340
“Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.”
“Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife.”
“... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.”

Source : Dale Spender (1983). “Feminist theorists: three centuries of key women thinkers”, Pantheon

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