"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“So what if I can't spell Armaggedon? ... it's not the end of the world.”
“He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.”

Source : Simone Signoret (1978). “Nostalgia isn't what it used to be”, HarperCollins Publishers
“It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.”
“The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve equally all his students, future users and nonusers of mathematics, should teach problem solving so that it is about one-third mathematics and two-thirds common sense.”
“If you want to be a leader, go lead”
“Quite a lot of what we normally think of as human culture doesn't fit some definition. What are the values behind cuisine, which is a form of human culture? Does it have deep values? I don't know - I would say not. But maybe I'm not a foodie.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!”
“For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.”

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