"Only the present counts."

-- Georges Bernanos

“Forget startup companies. The next frontier is startup countries.”
“Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.”

Source : Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.119, Take Root Media
“Donâ€™t be one of those souls who says, â€˜If only I had my life to live over.â€™ Live your life in such a way that once is enough.”
“His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1834). “Philip Van Artvelde: A Dramatic Romance. In Two Parts”, p.41
“I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.”
“Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.”
“Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools, which kids already hate, and associate it firmly with boredom, regulation, condescension, makework and de facto segregation ... Prayer in the schools will rid us of the bland no-offense ecumenism that is so infuriating to us anticlericals: Oh, so now you say Jews didn't kill Christ - a little on the late side, isn't it?”
“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.”

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