"With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses."

-- James K. Polk

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“If anything can go wrong it will.”
“The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.”
“It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.”
“An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which is a systematic study of how key representatives of America's rising tide of religion attempted a theoretical understanding of, and practical response to, America's rising tide of commerce.”
“We have moments of such clarity, of such appreciation of the incredible web of interconnected events that carry us from breath to breath, day to day, as long as we live-and the next moment we fret about how much we weigh. Or who we didn't send a Valentine. Or who forgot to compliment the dinner. Or whatever.”
“If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.”
“We just have to keep our heads down and keep doing everything that we've been doing. This isn't a bunch of guys that are just going to go out and brag We're going to race every week like we have never won a race before. That's the kind of determination that you need when Â you are going to do this stuff.”
“Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.”

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