"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."

-- Charles Darwin

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“People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike.”
“Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.”
“I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience.”

Source : "Yo La Tengo Is Here for the Long Haul". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. November 14, 2015.
“I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I dont know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.”
“I say what other people won't.”
“Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel”, p.335, Random House
“I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.”
“The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.”

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