"There are no days more full than those we go back to."

-- Colum McCann

“...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.”
“If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about.”
“If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.”
“To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.”
“My own views on all matters of public revenue and public expenditure are conditioned by an acute appreciation of whose is the sacrifice that produces public revenue and to whom accrues the benefit of public spending.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 216), March 24, 1966.
“Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.”
“With all his greatness and accomplishments on the guitar, Dime will be missed more for his giving personality, charisma, caring for others, love and most of all his heart. Twice as big as the state of Texas. Dime gave it all every day to each and every one of us and our lives have forever been hollowed without himâ€¦ Thanks to all of you for reaching out to us in this time of our immeasurable loss. Rest in peace brother Dime.”
“If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.”

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