"While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school."

-- Art Buchwald

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“With the Special Ops Warrior Foundation's help, we put 266 kids through college last year. And that's what keeps me going. I'll be honest, I don't like running. I don't like biking. I don't like swimming. I do it to raise money. But, now that I'm in this sport, I want to see how far I can push myself. What makes me tick is that pain you feel when you do these ultramarathons. I love knowing that everyone's suffering because I know I can suffer just a little bit more. I can take a lot of pain.”
“When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.”
“I dabbled into witchcraft-I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do.”
“Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.”
“I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.”
“The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.”

Source : "Pentagon Labels Founding Fathers, Conservatives as Extremists" by Todd Starnes, www.christianpost.com. August 26, 2013.
“Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.”
“Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.”

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