"Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'."

-- Plutarch

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“I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.”
“How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.”

Source : Song: How Could an Angel Break My Heart, Album: Secrets, 1996
“Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta.”
“Vegetarianism that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years. Actually it's been 11 and a half years and I feel good and I feel like I look good and I have energy& and you have to look at what you're putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat grain and I take care of myself and I don't think I look that bad, do I?”
“Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Representative Jared Polis (D, Colo.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 29, 2010.
“What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.”
“Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.”
“Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.”

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