"Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite."

-- Alexander Woollcott

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“What do women really want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.”
“No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.”

Source : "De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties" by Claude Adrien Helvetius, translated by William Mudford, (p. 21), 1807.
“My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.”
“Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.”
“It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.”

Source : David Brainerd (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: From the Honourable Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; who Died at Northampton in New England, Oct. 9, 1747 ...”, p.242
“I stayed on the track I wanted to stay on. I donâ€™t think I deviated from what Iâ€™m all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.”
“Very few people can afford to be poor.”
“What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity and decency and, God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy, gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.”

Source : "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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