"Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk."

-- John H. McWhorter

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“I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.”

Source : "Goodbye cruel Slough" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2004.
“Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.”
“Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.”

Source : Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.7, Knopf
“At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.”
“Today you may not understand me and tomorrow you all think as you thought as yesterday; but I believe in my mind that one day you all will understand me; though there is no my presence.”
“Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in Godâ€™s will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.”
“The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.”
“The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.”

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