"He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope."

-- Dennis Lehane

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“It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.”

Source : "The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States". Book by Carl Clinton Van Doren, 1948.
“You know, it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm open to whatever people want to call me. I've never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don't think I would be afraid of it if it happened.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.”

Source : "Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock".
“We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.”
“I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken.”
“The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?”
“By studying the masters and not their pupils.”

Source : Niels Henrik Abel, Olav Arnfinn Laudal, Ragni Piene (2004). “The Legacy of Niels Henrik Abel: The Abel Bicentennial, Oslo, June 3-8, 2002”, p.353, Springer Science & Business Media
“The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.”

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