"I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies."

-- John Shelby Spong

“Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.”

Source : Charles Churchill (1892). “The Poetical Works of Charles, Churchill”
“I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.”
“A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.”
“I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.”
“I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.”
“I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about.”

Source : Source: www.blackfive.net
“Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so on.”

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