"There is no retracing our steps."

-- Horace

“We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it.”
“The thing that attracted me to my husband was his pride. I'll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze - and he too proud to run and get it.”

Source : "Milton Berle, With Charm and a Mink" by Jane Wollman Rusoff, www.nytimes.com. November 5, 2006.
“The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'”
“That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles; and by the recognition by all citizens that they have duties as well as rights, and that such rights cannot be enjoyed save in a society where law is respected and due process is observed.”
“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
“I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.”
“I don't like losing anyways.”
“They say if it's too good to be true, it usually is..... Unless it's me.”

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