"After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party."

-- Heather Wilson

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“They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.”
“I am afraid of getting older â€¦ I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayâ€”spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be freeâ€¦. I want, I want to think, to be omniscientâ€¦. I think I would like to call myself â€˜The girl who wanted to be God.”
“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.”
“I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.”
“The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.”
“As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.”
“It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.”
“All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.”

Source : "Robin Hood star Mark Strong: 'Real knights would have needed tea breaks'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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