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Jimmy Carter
“For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land.”
Jimmy Carter, U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses

William Morris
“Art is the expression of man's pleasure in labour.”
William Morris

Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I can whistle almost the whole of the Fifth Symphony, all four movements, and with it I have solaced many a whining hour to sleep. It answers all my questions, the noble, mighty thing, it is “green pastures and still waters” to my soul. Indeed, without music I should wish to die. Even poetry, Sweet Patron Muse forgive me the words, is not what music is. I find that lately more and more my fingers itch for a piano, and I shall not spend another winter without one. Last night I played for about two hours, the first time in a year, I think, and though most everything is gone enough remains to make me realize I could get it back if I had the guts. People are so dam lazy, aren’t they? Ten years I have been forgetting all I learned so lovingly about music, and just because I am a boob. All that remains is Bach. I find that I never lose Bach. I don’t know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Thomas Browne
“Yet do I believe that all this is true, which indeed my reason would persuade me to be false; and this I think is no vulgar part of faith to believe a thing not only above, but contrary to reason, and against the argument of our proper senses.”
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

Theodore Roosevelt
“While President, I have been President, emphatically; I have used every ounce of power there was in the office.…I do not believe that any President ever had as thoroughly good a time as I have had, or has ever enjoyed himself as much.”
Theodore Roosevelt, The Big Stick, 1905–1909: 1905–1907 (Volume 5)

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