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“Broken hearts and dirty windows
Make life difficult to see
That's why last night and this morning
Always look the same to me”
― John Prine, John Prine

“probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
― Willie Nelson

“Don't play what's there; play what's not there.”
― Miles Davis

“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”
― Dean Martin