"We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!"

-- Charles Schumer

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“I feel like everyone is living an unfulfilled life. When you reach that point of fulfillment, you want something more. But when you realize your life is unfulfilled you can either decide to be depressed or you can do something about it.”
“Pause and remember - When you fight reality, you will lose every time. Once you accept the situation for what it truly is, not what you want it to be, you are then free to move forward.”
“Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.”
“Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (1958). “Down There (Là Bas): A Study in Satanism”
“When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyoneâ€™s graffiti.”

Source : "NRA chief: Obama makes 'mockery' of American freedoms" by Lateef Mungin, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2013.
“Case (Keenum) is going to be the quarterback. Weâ€™re going to give him a chance to see how he can perform. I think the jury is still out. Heâ€™s got a lot of ability. Heâ€™s shown some flashes of brilliance and then heâ€™s shown some rookie mistakes. Weâ€™ve got to see if we can improve, eliminate those mistakes, minimize those mistakes and continue some of the outstanding play that (weâ€™ve) seen and see whether we think that he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. At this point, we really donâ€™t know.”
“My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as itâ€™s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree thereâ€™s this pitch oozing out â€“ some black, some yellow â€“ and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.”
“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”

Source : Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.40, Macmillan

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