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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. — Alexis De Tocqueville

At the end of the day, my natural habitat is in a car and I am happiest in that environment. — Maria De Villota

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,' " I intoned, " 'when first we practice to deceive.' — Diana Gabaldon

It takes a certain skill set to be partnered. You have the biological knowledge of the machine. What are the parts, where are they located, how do they work, what do they do? Then there is your intellectual understanding about sex, in history, what you believe about sex, what you were taught about sex. Then there's you intrapersonal skill, your relationship with yourself. Then there are interpersonal skills. — Nina Hartley

Nothing lasts," she says, and there's a little crack in her voice. "You think it's going to. You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away. — Tim Tharp

If I tell you will you go?"
"What? I don't get. What do you mean?"
"I love you, Kotohiki. I've loved you for a real long time. — Koushun Takami

If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change. — Abraham Lincoln

Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book. — A.M. Hudson

Despite good intentions, the result is troubling: Feeding the Beast becomes the central focus. — Ed Catmull

Everything happens at night.
The world changes, the shadows grow, there's secrecy and privacy in dark places. First kiss at night, by the monkey bars and the old swings that the children and their parents have vacated; second, longer kiss, by the bike stands, swirl of dust around feet in the dry summer air. Awkward words, like secrets just waiting to be broken, the struggle to find the right ones, the heady fear of exposure
what if, what if
the joy when the words are returned. Love, in the parkette, while the moon waxes and the clouds pass.
Promises at night. Not first promises
those are so old they can't be remembered
but new promises, sharp and biting; they almost hurt to say, but it's a good hurt. Dreams at night, before sleep, and dreams during sleep.
Everything, always, happens at night. — Michelle Sagara

I am also, I must confess, a little sceptical of the theory that we have a right, if we could, to pass on our capital burden to future generations. I remarked last year in this context that our predecessors had not passed any significant part of their burden on to us. — John James Cowperthwaite

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals. — Barbara W. Tuchman