"What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel."

-- Andrew Cuomo

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“By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.”
“The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.”

Source : Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007
“In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself.”
“we are to be brought through the fire, not left in it. and you know what? to anyone that ever told you that you're no good... they're no better.”
“When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It's that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature's intelligence to flow through us without interfering.”
“Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.”

Source : Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.81, Penguin
“When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.”
“You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.”

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