"This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on."

-- Calvin Coolidge

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“Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.”
“Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.”

Source : William F. Schulz (1992). “Finding time & other delicacies”
“Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.”

Source : "Jail: An Inmates Survival Guide". Panama Publishing Inc. Book, p. 24, 2007.
“A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You must plan to be spontaneous.”
“Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself”

Source : Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.102, Courier Corporation
“What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own genius, which is a dangerous place for writers. You don't want to ever get complacent. If a book starts going too well, I usually know there's a problem. I need to struggle. I need that self-doubt. I need to think it's not the best thing ever.”
“How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.”

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