"Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends."

-- Arlene Francis

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“Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.”
“The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.”
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”

Source : 'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)
“To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which though it's never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.”

Source : "Letter from America, 1946-2004".
“You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can”
“I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (2009). “The Annotated Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.2, Sheridan House, Inc.
“The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.”
“It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.”

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