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#1. To her mind the Senate was a place where people went to recite speeches, and she naively assumed that the speeches were useful and had a purpose, but as they did not interest her she never went again. This is a very common conception of Congress; many Congressmen share it.

Henry Adams

#2. What music I listen to day to day changes very, very much. I can go from bluegrass to heavy metal, to blues, to classical and big band and then go to pop and rap.

Casey James

#3. We need god to prosper those without him will not.

Nostradamus

#4. A "game" that will give everyone the consoling impression of making contact, together, with the ultimate transcendent referent.

David Foster Wallace

#5. For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. If you were going to be best friends with anyone - Kevin - you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends.

Roddy Doyle

#7. A life lived outside of the will of the Lord is like trying to climb a waterfall.

Nicole Baart

#8. Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

James Russell Lowell

#9. A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

Austin O'Malley

#10. We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.

Lamar Alexander

#11. Would you really have ... ?" said Julien.
"Almost certainly," I said. "I have deep-seated problems with authority figures."
"But you are one!"
"I know! I can only assume the universe has a really mean sense of humour.

Simon R. Green

#12. I felt a kind of vertigo, as if I were merely plunging from one world to another, and in each I arrived shortly after the end of the world had taken place.

Italo Calvino

#13. I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

Don DeLillo