"Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act."

-- McGeorge Bundy

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“It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.”
“Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?”
“... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.”

Source : 'Crotchet Castle' (1831) ch. 7
“It's healthy for a band to become slightly less relevant”
“Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.”
“Keep your character several steps ahead of your talent”
“Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.”
“The best road to progress is freedom's road.”

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