"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."

-- George Steiner

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“President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.”
“Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.”
“Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.”
“The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.”
“I have such respect for women who go through pregnancy multiple times. I thought it was beautiful being pregnant. The aftermath is brutal.”

Source : "Christina Applegate On Eating Well, Surviving Cancer And Finding Joy". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.
“Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless.”
“In order to have friends, you must first be one.”
“It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.”

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