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When my mother comes home from the hospital with me, my older brother takes one look inside the pink blanket, says, Take her back. We already have one of those. Already — Jacqueline Woodson

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits. — Elton John

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own. — Shannon Tweed

For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. — Henry David Thoreau

You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it. — Jeff Olson

Nobody cares about your products (Except You) — David Meerman Scott

The things that are right will reward us better at the end of the day. — Sunday Adelaja

The fallacy is one of the fifty fallacies that come from the modern madness for biological or bodily metaphors. It is convenient to speak of the Social Organism, just as it is convenient to speak of the British Lion. But Britain is no more an organism than Britain is a lion. The moment we begin to give a nation the unity and simplicity of an animal, we begin to think wildly. Because every man is a biped, fifty men are not a centipede. This has produced, for instance, the gaping absurdity of perpetually talking about "young nations" and "dying nations," as if a nation had a fixed and physical span of life. Thus people will say that Spain has entered a final senility; they might as well say that Spain is losing all her teeth. Or people will say that Canada should soon produce a literature; which is like saying that Canada must soon grow a new moustache. — G.K. Chesterton

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. — Robert Caro

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason — Juvenal

She didn't know what to do with the severed leg. She had cut it off, but she didn't want to touch it or even look at it. — Larry McMurtry

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say. — Steven Cojocaru

I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest. — Evelyn Waugh

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap. — Robert D. Putnam