"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."

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Christian Nestell Bovee

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“Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.”
“For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.”
“Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness”

Source : John McPhee (2003). “The Founding Fish”, p.330, Macmillan
“He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.”
“The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.”
“A good sister is one who won't be embarrassed when you burst into tears in public. A better one will hand you tissues until you stop. The best is the one who will go get you another latte to go with the ginormous chocolate orgy she's already laid in front of you.”
“In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.”

Source : "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”

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