"Thereâ€™s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesnâ€™t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht."

-- Frank Rich

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“Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.”
“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”

Source : "Eclogues (Book IX)". Book by Virgil, 37 BC.
“Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as the sun rose behind me. The full moon from the night before was still visible. The bluish cast of the atmosphere can also be seen.”
“Forgettingis a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself. For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.”
“At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - relief or despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking - 'wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant!”
“Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.
“What do the 5%, or the 1% actually use their money for? They lend it back to the economy at large, they load it down with debt. They make their money by lending to the bottom 95%, or the bottom 99%. When you give them more after-tax income, it enables them to buy even more control of government, even more control of election campaigns. They're not going to spend this money back into the goods-and-services economy.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.”

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