"We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians."

-- Pete McCloskey

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“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. Hocus was an old cunning attorney. - Dr. John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull, 1712. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874.”
“Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.”
“Earthly majesty is always akin to the fallen angel, who is proud and unhappy, beautiful but troubled, and whose plans and efforts, though vast, are denied access.”
“If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.”
“Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!”
“Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.”

Source : "Interview Issue: Dan Savage, Jane Lynch on 'It Gets Better,' Gay Bullying, 'Glee'". Interview with Jessica Bennett, www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2010.
“In a way, my father [Pablo Escobar] reached a certain degree of sincerity that I became to know and I would even say appreciate because I would have rather had my father treat me like this rather than as an idiot that would never have any idea about what was happening around us.”

Source : Source: harvardpolitics.com
“Donâ€™t be one of those souls who says, â€˜If only I had my life to live over.â€™ Live your life in such a way that once is enough.”

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