"The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos."

-- William Hartung

#Art Quotes #Leader Quotes #President Quotes

“I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.”
“Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime.”

Source : Ann Rinaldi (1998). “In My Father's House: And Related Readings”, McDougal Littel
“Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.”

Source : Mark Buchanan (2009). “The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God”, p.27, Multnomah
“The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.”
“I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?”
“The Church of TED is very optimistic. Bulgarians are some of the most pessimistic in the world. There are the Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians.”
“The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.”

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