"Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice."

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Source : Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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“The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.”

Source : "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.
“I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity”
“I'm proud to be associated with the liberation of Assata Shakur.”
“My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing”
“I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.”
“I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"”
“I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.”
“Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.”

Source : Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1848). “The popular works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, tr., with a memoir of the author by W. Smith”, p.218

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