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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#abraham lincoln #become #every #fought #founded

What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#agenda #become #believes #business #constituent

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#be yourself #believe #cut #defines #friends

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#believe #degrees #destiny #does #fate

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#before #defeated #does #last #person

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#chips #delicate #esteem #high #hold

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#life #like #pass #plane #ride

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#any #communicating #deal #good #i

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#along #crawl #forged #hacked #highway

Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today? ↗

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

#music #ocd #oxford #poetry #redemptive