"If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable."

-- George Washington

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“We're starting with our own carbon footprint. Not nothing. But much of what we're doing is already, or soon will be, little more than the standard way of doing business. We can do something that's unique, different from just any other company. We can set an example, and we can reach our audiences. Our audience's carbon footprint is 10,000 times bigger than ours. That's the carbon footprint we want to conquer.”
“Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.”
“You can't just blurt the information out to the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador. What happens is, the information goes back to the CIA, to the originating office. The CIA will pull the relevant information out of the report, put it on a new blank sheet of paper and then type at the top, "Secret releasable to Russia." That way, nobody gets in trouble, no sources and methods are revealed, everybody's happy, and we can establish something of a liaison relationship to the Russians. That's not what the president did.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.”

Source : John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan
“He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.”
“I have certain issues. I support women candidates, but I cannot support a woman that I don't believe in. I would prefer to vote for a man who believes in choice than a woman who is pro-life. We have to be able to make distinctions and not look as though we are not feminist enough if we don't support every woman. We need to have that kind of a choice.”
“Girls are always saying things like, â€œIâ€™m so unhappy that Iâ€™m going to overdose on aspirin,â€ but theyâ€™d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.”

Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber
“I am really accessible.”

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