"Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress"

-- Nicholas Biddle

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“But I regret not having liked history.”
“I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music.”
“I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is.”

Source : "Burnett is reality TV survivor". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.
“You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.”

Source : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.57, Cosimo Classics
“Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.”
“I look at every book as a self-help book.”
“From the very beginning the president [of USA] had two very important principles that had to be reconciled. One principle is that every woman should have the right to all forms of preventive health care, including contraception. The other is that we need to respect the religious liberties which are the cornerstone of American life.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the wind increasing to a gale. The waves rose high, but I had a good ship. Still, in the dismal fog I felt myself drifting into loneliness, an insect on the straw in the midst of the elements.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.238, Sheridan House, Inc.

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