"I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying."

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.”
“When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.”
“As we educate a child -- removing out of its path those obstacles over which we ourselves, in early days, have stumbled, and strengthening its mind with the aid of our own matured experience -- we, as it were, construct a new and better replica of ourselves, and thus enable the race to move slowly, but surely, forward towards the ultimate goal of existence -- towards perfection.”
“Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States?”
“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
“When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.”
“There are only two types of music.good and bad.”

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