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The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#atheist #back #crawl #dangerous #easiest

One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book. ↗

— Phil Foglio

#book #characteristics #cherish #childlike #excited

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#david #hands #hold #how #into

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died. ↗

— Luther Vandross

#fat #i #larger #lost #now

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#born #culture #democracy #exist #forget

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#chain #equal #exceptions #faith #hold

I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units. ↗

— Harold Ford

#am #appliances #cash #computers #efficient

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#because #child #eyes #give #got

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love. ↗

— Leslie Easterbrook

#capable #character #i #kind #larger

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me. ↗

— Dick Ebersol

#carson #first #five #had #him