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BLOODY LIPS The bloody wound Of the gladiator Gurgles out life's end. The cries of acclimations from the stands Fill the sky with raging tigers. Waving their arms about to incite the masses The aging notables add an air of dignity to the arena. Making their separate entries they K N E E L over the still-warm corpses Of the young. Their withered lips they pose Upon the fresh flowing wounds And, to prolong their lives – so they believe, Suck, ravenously suck out the blood, blood, blood. Fresh blood from the sun Flowing into filthy veins As into sewage pipes, And thus the Heart of the Nation is abandoned. ↗

— Visar Zhiti

#bloodsport #gladiators #oppression #tyranny #vampire

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West. ↗

— Ken Curtis

#besides #doing #dramatic #dramatic roles #grew

I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. ↗

— Leon Czolgosz

#enemy #good #good people #i #killed

I am basically a religious man. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#basically #i #i am #man #religious

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#conduct #democracy #desire #ever #feel

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. ↗

— George Armstrong Custer

#narrative #possible #purpose #truthful

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#consideration #creature #dies #given #imaginary

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts. ↗

— Lloyd Cutler

#decisions #each #made #matters #those

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought. ↗

— Lloyd Cutler

#difficult #even #government #i #i always

Either Mitt Romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people. ↗

— Stephanie Cutter

#american people #either #felony #his #mitt