"Nevertheless, it is probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time."

-- Kathleen Parker

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“This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.”

Source : Spider Robinson (1997). “The Star Dancers”
“To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.”
“[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.”
“Daughters of God know that it is the nurturing nature of women that can bring everlasting blessings, and they live to cultivate this divine attribute.”
“The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic attention in adolescence.”
“Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.”

Source : "'Dennis the Menace' creator dead at 81". www.cnn.com. June 3, 2001.
“You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“He said something interesting: he said that he thinks there is only free will when you are in time, in the present. He says in the past we can only do what we did, and we can only be there if we were there.”

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