"It's right to learn, even from the enemy."

-- Ovid

“ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”
“Political debate is political debate and that's fine. That's healthy.”
“When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.”
“The most important thing that I can share with you is the personal knowledge that decisions are not irrevocable, that choices do come back, sometimes in different forms and in different ways, but they can be remade.”
“Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.”

Source : Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.74
“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”
“I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.”
“So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.”

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