"Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system."

-- Mark Shields

“Iâ€™m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than Iâ€™d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, Iâ€™ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. Iâ€™ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.”
“We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.”
“It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.”

Source : "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham, (Ch. 68), 1915.
“I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.”
“You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.”

Source : "The funny side of the street". Interview with Rick Lyman, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2002.
“Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.”
“Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization.”
“It's funny because it's funny.”

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