"The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them."

-- Norman Lamont

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“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.”
“There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.”
“The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done.”

Source : "Chris Rock: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 18, 2011.
“You have to be brave and good things will come to you. I”

Source : "Actress Tania Raymonde talks 'Texas Chainsaw 3D'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. January 3, 2013.
“Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing.”
“History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.”

Source : Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”
“You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.”
“I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.”

Source : "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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