"I'll have those ***** voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded governors on Air Force One]"

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

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“It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.”

Source : Vikram Seth (1994). “Arion & the Dolphin: a libretto”, Not Avail
“By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him.”
“I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional evolution. We shouldn't be complacent in thinking that we can predict the results.”
“Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.”
“For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.”
“I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.”
“I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And theyâ€™re humble.”

Source : "Are You a C.E.O. of Something?". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2010.
“Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.”

Source : Warsan Shire, “The House”

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