"The good Lord gave me eight grandchildren, and I am convinced that through schools like Desert Christian that we are going to overwhelm the adversaries, not just with bombs and bullets, but with the demonstration of Christian principles."

-- Oliver North

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“I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.”

Source : Mireille Guiliano (2009). “Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility”, p.164, Simon and Schuster
“The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.”
“I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!”
“Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.”

Source : Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press
“I rather liked Stalin and Molotov, got along fine with them.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
“Everything is a once in a lifetime experience.”
“I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.”
“What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.344, The New Press

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