"In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test."

-- Chuck Close

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“The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.”
“For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (1987). “Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader”
“Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.”
“If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.”
“In everyday life, I use positive thoughts, sense of humor, Taekwondo, running, and yoga to make me stronger.”
“Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.”
“Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.”

Source : "Histories" by Polybius, book X, ch. 31,
“My meeting you was no coincidence. It's more than that!”

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