"For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon."

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John Podhoretz

#Thinking Quotes #Example Quotes #Republican Quotes

“I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.”
“Chicago - it's a mini-New York.”
“A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role,”
“I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect...geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.”
“At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1805). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.180
“There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.”
“I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.”
“Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.”

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