"Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws."

-- Sam Rayburn

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“If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?”
“Okay, that really shouldn't have happened. And weâ€™re not going to talk about that, right? Ever?â€ â€œRight,â€ she said. She felt like there was light dripping from her fingertips. Spilling out of her toes. She felt full of light, in fact, warm buttery sunlight. â€œNever happened.â€ He opened his mouth, then closed it, and closed his eyes. â€œClaireâ€”â€ â€œI know.â€ â€œLock the door,â€ he said.”
“The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail.”

Source : "DECKER: 5 Questions with Robert Agostinelli". Interview with Brett M. Decker, www.washingtontimes.com. November 14, 2012.
“The historian amputates reality.”
“Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.”
“Compliments are only lies in court clothes.”

Source : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.579
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”
“It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.”

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