"Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest employments of his life to select and pursue a companion, and joins to possession the keenest pleasure, to rivalry the fiercest rage, and to solicitude an eternal melancholy. What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?"

-- George Santayana

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“I'll have my double chins in privacy.”

Source : "Fictional character: Carlotta Vance". "Dinner at Eight", www.imdb.com. 1922.
“One poll showed that Americans have a higher opinion of witches, the IRS and hemorrhoids than Congress”
“Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the nicest and humblest guy. You would never know that he's the best tennis player of all time. And Tiger is so mentally tough. He can block everything completely out and stay in the moment.”
“I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don't much like being dependent. We don't enjoy admitting how depeately we long for someone's kindness and involvement. It's so humbling.”
“Let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion.”
“I'm a big woman. I need big hair.”
“I'm a bit of a connoisseur of Google criticism.”

Source : "TED 2011: The 'Panda' That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google's Top Search Engineers". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. March 3, 2011.
“The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs.”

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