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I sketched my late friend Marian's rotating bookshelf while watching John Waters' "Female Trouble" in her parlor on Christmas Day, 1989. #femaletrouble #divine #johnwaters #avantegarde #avantegardemovies #avantegardemovie #dirty #hilarious #satire #gay #gayculture #camp #campfunny #camphumor #camphilarity #jp #justiceofthepeace #justice #juniatajustice #author #authoress #publicservant #publicservice #ink #penandink #penandpaper #sketch #sketches #sketching #sketcher #christmas #1980s

I sketched my late friend Marian's rotating bookshelf while watching John Waters' "Female Trouble" in her parlor on Christmas Day, 1989. #femaletrouble #divine #johnwaters #avantegarde #avantegardemovies #avantegardemovie #dirty #hilarious #satire #gay #gayculture #camp #campfunny #camphumor #camphilarity #jp #justiceofthepeace #justice #juniatajustice #author #authoress #publicservant #publicservice #ink #penandink #penandpaper #sketch #sketches #sketching #sketcher #christmas #1980s

I sketched my late friend Marian's rotating bookshelf while watching John Waters' "Female Trouble" in her parlor on Christmas Day, 1989. #femaletrouble #divine #johnwaters #avantegarde #avantegardemovies #avantegardemovie #dirty #hilarious #satire #gay #gayculture #camp #campfunny #camphumor #camphilarity #jp #justiceofthepeace #justice #juniatajustice #author #authoress #publicservant #publicservice #ink #penandink #penandpaper #sketch #sketches #sketching #sketcher #christmas #1980s

I sketched my late friend Marian's rotating bookshelf while watching John Waters' "Female Trouble" in her parlor on Christmas Day, 1989. #femaletrouble #divine #johnwaters #avantegarde #avantegardemovies #avantegardemovie #dirty #hilarious #satire #gay #gayculture #camp #campfunny #camphumor #camphilarity #jp #justiceofthepeace #justice #juniatajustice #author #authoress #publicservant #publicservice #ink #penandink #penandpaper #sketch #sketches #sketching #sketcher #christmas #1980s

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

A man who stays long in our American political life, if he has in his soul the generous desire to do effective service for great causes, inevitably grows to regard himself merely as one of many instruments, all of which it may be necessary to use, one at one time, one at another, in achieving the triumph of those causes; and whenever the usefulness of any one has been exhausted, it is to be thrown aside. If such a man is wise, he will gladly do the thing that is next, when the time and the need come together, without asking what the future holds for him. Let the half-god play his part well and manfully, and then be content to draw aside when the god appears. Nor should he feel vain regrets that to another it is given to render greater services and reap a greater reward. Let it be enough for him that he too has served, and that by doing well he has prepared the way for the other man who can do better.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 3 “Practical Politics” (1913)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…

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A quotation from Herbert Hoover

   The duty of public men in this Republic is to lead in standards of integrity — both in mind and money.
   Dishonor in public life has a double poison. When people are dishonorable in private business, they injure only those with whom they deal or their own chances in the next world. But when there is a lack of honor in Government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
   Some folks seem to think these are necessary evils in a free government. Or that it is smart politics. Those are deadly sleeping pills. No public man can be just a little crooked.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1951-08-30), “Concerning Honor in Public Life,” Iowa Centennial Celebration, Des Moines, Iowa (radio broadcast)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoover-herbert/18705…

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