"I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I wonâ€™t be the last."

-- Jeannette Rankin

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“All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.”
“Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.”

Source : Kenneth Oppel (2012). “Such Wicked Intent: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, Book Two”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
“What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?”
“I can get 400 pages down the road and still not know the answer. What I do know is that I have really examined every facet of the situation, and I may not have changed my opinion but I have definitely forced myself to explore why it's my opinion.”
“An overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.”
“I have a theory that musicians recognize each other and if they are destined to collaborate together they will. Mainly, they recognize each other according to the class they belong to. If they are punk-rocker kids from the neighborhood, they are going form a band. If they happen to be musicians that are going to play in pubs and restaurants, they are going to recognize each other, form a band and play together. If it's about musicians that are playing jazz and are going to jazz festivals, for e.g., then they are going to meet and work together.”
“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”

Source : Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.259, New Directions Publishing
“To suggest that the president should be censured because you don't agree with the legal advice he got seems to me to just -- to be out of the ballpark in terms of the way we can sensibly discuss and talk about issues like this.”

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