"Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice."

-- Jean Baptiste Massillon

“My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.”
“Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.”
“Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.”
“You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.”
“A lot of the women that I treat will tell me that when they talk to their siblings or mothers they very often have similar challenges. One could make the case that it's nurture, not nature because these twins were brought up together, but you can't rule out the genetic argument.”
“Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.”
“Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.”
“I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.”

Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.316, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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