"To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most of the useful and respectable, qualifications. The character in which both the one and the other should be united and harmonised would seem to constitute the most perfect idea of human nature."

-- Edward Gibbon

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“It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.”
“I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“Forgiveness is the path to healing.”
“Things fit only to give weight to smoke.”
“All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
“Once we choose hope, everything is possible.”

Source : Annette Funicello, Norman Vincent Peale, Christopher Reeve, Michael J. (CON) Fox (2008). “Stories to Comfort the Soul”, GuidepostsBooks
“I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.”

Source : "Kamala Harris: Democrats' anti-Palin". www.politico.com. December 24, 2010.
“Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price.”

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