"I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12."

-- Apolo Ohno

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“It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.”
“Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.”

Source : "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. January 21, 2001.
“I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger. He defined that for the world. He was bold and adventurous with it, too - just the ultimate rock star.”
“When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.”
“When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manualâ€”even a one-word manualâ€”then it is a failure, poorly designed.”

Source : "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Ch. 4, p. 87; regarding doors labeled "Push" and "Pull", 2002.
“The hungry nations of the world cry out to the peoples blessed with abundance. And the Church, cut to the quick by this cry, asks each and every man to hear his brother's plea and answer it lovingly.”
“Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.”
“All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.”

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