"History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains â€“ let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!"

-- Leon Trotsky

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“I grew up with all kinds of people.”
“I believe that happiness is something we create”
“In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.”
“The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give up one's bad habits, to root out of the heart all that ties us to the world; not to cherish bad desires and thoughts; to quench and suppress bad thoughts; to avoid occasions of sin; not to do or desire anything from self-love but to do everything out of love for God. To deny oneself means, according to the Apostle Paul, to be dead to sin and the world, but alive to God.”
“I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.”
“rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.”
“My wife is not my best sexual partner, but she's good with the housework.”
“We have federal standards for everything in America except the one thing you need most - your health.”

Source : "Why I Declined My Congressional Health Coverage". www.dailykos.com. June 29, 2007.

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