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For a tear is an intellectual thing,And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King,And the bitter groan of the martyr's woeIs an arrow from the Almighty's bow.
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Although we sought to do the right thingand believed we were doing the right thingin my judgement, hindsight proves us wrong.


— 1995  In Retrospect:  The tragedy and lessons of Vietnam (with Brian Van de Mark).

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A lot of people build very stiff puppets--you can barely move the thing--and you can get very little expression out of a character that you can barely move. Your hand has a lot of flexibility to it, and what you want to do is to build a puppet that can reflect all that flexibility.


— Jim Henson p. 19, 21

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A lot of people build very stiff puppets--you can barely move the thing--and you can get very little expression out of a character that you can barely move. Your hand has a lot of flexibility to it, and what you want to do is to build a puppet that can reflect all that flexibility.


— Jim Henson p. 19, 21 (Jim Henson: The Works (1993))

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A popular Judge is a deformed thing:;:and plaudites are fitter for players than for magistrates. Do good to the people:;; love them, and give them justice; but let it be as the psalm says, 'nihil inde expectantes,' looking for nothing, neither praise nor profit.


— Bacon, Speech in the Star Chamber before the Summer Circuits (1617), Bacon's Works, Vol. VI., 141, 194, 244.

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He weren't no saint—but at jedgmentI'd run my chance with Jim.'Longside of some pious gentlemenThat wouldn't shook hands with him.He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing—And went for it thar and then;And Christ ain't a-going to be too hardOn a man that died for men.

john hay

— Jim Bludso, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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They don't know my head's full of meAnd that I have my own special thing,And there's no hole in my head.Too bad.

malvina reynolds

— Song No Hole In My Head

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