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last updated: November 28, 2023

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.
-- Gerald R. Ford

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With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.
-- Richard Peck

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We are not anti-American. we do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.
-- Tommy Douglas

Source : Tommy Douglas' speech at NDP National Convention in Ottawa, Ontario, April 21, 1971.

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“This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.”
“I hope people can see us SHINee, who are doing what we can do now, as we are.”
“And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.”

Source : James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.99, Penguin
“Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.”
“As I set out to begin photographing Shanghai, I encountered the insider/outsider phenomena in the most personal of ways. You would walk into an old neighborhood in the center of city, and people would begin to point at you. People would begin to talk about you, spreading the word about the outsider who has wandered into their midst, look at him, he's got a camera, what's he doing, is this allowed, is this OK, how should be respond to him.”

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“The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.”
“We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.”
“Itâ€™s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.”
“I don't feel like I've done anything extraordinary but take my little light and shine it in darkness.”
“That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay.”