"2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!"

-- Thomas Menino

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“Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.”
“Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.”

Source : Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA
“In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.”
“Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.”

Source : "Psycho-Oncology". Book by Fred Goodwin (p. 2), 2000.
“I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one”
“Although I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the federal system treated me from beginning to end like a major criminal, and I still don't know why, other than that in those days, 6.5 ounces of heroin was a big load. Ludicrous by today's standards, when coke, heroin, and weed are shipped across the border by the ton.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I wish I could pass my life at the foot of the holy tabernacles in which our adorable Saviour dwells.”
“Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book about it, seen from Black's point of view. Why does everybody try to copy the grandmasters' strange positional maneuvers in the 5. ... B-K2 variation, instead of fighting for the in intiative?”

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