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The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily. Paul Westerberg
Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001. Butch Otter
I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation. Jerry West
William Osler quote: "It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier..."
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. William Osler
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton quote: "Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit,..."
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. Charles Caleb Colton
George Orwell quote: "Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always..."
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. George Orwell
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. George Orwell
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. John Boyd Orr
I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason. Anthony Trollope
Noah Hathaway quote: "I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of..."
I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing. Noah Hathaway
The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income. Peter Welch
Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Alcee Hastings
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance. Will Oldham
John Oldham quote: "Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame."
Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame. John Oldham

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