"You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad."

-- Nick Hornby

“Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or force without matter. When God created the elements of which the earth is composed, He created certain wondrous forces, which are set free and become evident when matter acts on matter.”

Source : Michael Faraday, Sir William CROOKES (1860). “A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations”, p.3
“There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.”
“You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.”

Source : John Leo “Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police”, Transaction Publishers
“The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.”
“I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.”

Source : moss hart (1959). “act one”
“A nation will not be moved by timid methods.”
“A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that”

Source : Joseph Rickaby (1925). “An Old Man's Jottings”
“Conservative principles place growth and opportunity at the forefront, and I look forward to the RNC continuing to promote those values in communities across the nation as we grow the party.”

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