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No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'ROURKE

Black Church Classical English People Preach Scheme Speak Troop
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Business Car Corruption Education Man School
Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR

Gains Imbalance Rooms
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Easy Endurance
Today, you’re either very big or you’re playing stadiums or you’re not playing anymore. You’re either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won’t go to see you at all.
BOBBY VINTON

Arena Bigs Today
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Knowledge Wisdom
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
D. A. CARSON

Genuine Liberty Please
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
GORE VIDAL

Change Reality Time Torture Victim
I haven’t been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I’m not silent.
BILL AYERS

Lectures Silent Writing
Try to bring me down, but you will never succeed because I’m always moving upward. Maybe not before, but now … I am.
AARON CARTER

Down Moving Succeed Trying Up
When God gave Christ to this world, He gave the best He had, and He wants us to do the same.
DWIGHT L. MOODY

Best God Himself World
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
MAYA ANGELOU

Fantasy Lucky Reality Transform
When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Irony Mean Youth
She smiles and life isn’t as hard as it used to be.
BLAKE AUDEN

Hard Herself Life Love Smile
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
AL ROKER

Cook Family Love Myself
The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.
BRENT WEEKS

Done Dukes Pretending Trying