"Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver."

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Alfred Austin

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“Hard work, dedication!”
“I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...”
“All proofs rest on premises.”
“I remember when I went to try out for the Olympic team in 1972, Coach Iba told me he didn't care how many points I could score because if I couldn't guard anybody, I wasn't going to make the team. I knew to make the team I had to become a better defender. If you can play offense, you can defend. It just comes down to competitive will.”
“My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.”
“And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.”
“This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.”
“Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.”

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