"It needed to be in the public record that no matter the size of the disaster, no matter the level of our compassion, that we have a responsibility to get emergency help to people the right way, but we also have a responsibility to be prudent in our planning."

-- Steve King

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“I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.”
“History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.”

Source : Chalmers Johnson (2007). “Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic”, p.71, Macmillan
“Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.”
“Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics.”

Source : Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“You can't really ever know what someone is like or what they're thinking. There are people who say they're feminists but who say really anti-feminist things, [and] other people who think they're one way but act another.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.”
“He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.”
“The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.”

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