"I donâ€™t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder."

-- Zelda Fitzgerald

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“In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability...”
“I want people to know that blood tests alone won't always detect thyroid disease. My blood panels were normal. I think a lot more people have this disease than are diagnosed.”
“The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.”
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.”

Source : Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.198, Penguin
“Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends-\-\they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.”

Source : YouTube Channel "LastWeekTonight"/"Marketing to Doctors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)", www.youtube.com. February 08, 2015.
“Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.”
“It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.”

Source : Robert Smith Surtees, Author of Mr. Sponge's sporting tour (1854). “Handley Cross: Or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt”, p.140
“I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away”

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