"John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me."

-- Harvey Gantt

“What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”
“In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.”
“The Soviets are not just looking at Moscow, they have a very extensive program of not only research, development, they have built this radar net around the whole country. One of those radars has become infamous because it's a clear violation of the ABM Treaty. They have an infrastructure and they are well prepared to develop a nationwide defensive system.”

Source : "Ideology of the Reagan Administration". WGBH Educational Foundation Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 24, 1987.
“Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.”

Source : John Barnes (2009). “Tales of the Madman Underground”, p.46, Penguin
“The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.”
“I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.”

Source : Jesse Stuart (1975). “My World”, p.37, University Press of Kentucky
“I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.”
“Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.”

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