"I would put myself towards left of center."

-- Yvette Clarke

“To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.”
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
“Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.”
“You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.”

Source : Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.463, Simon and Schuster
“With faint praises one another damn.”

Source : The Plain Dealer prologue (1677) See Pope 32
“History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.”
“The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.”
“We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.”

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