"Michele Flournoy, by the way, is not just a talented and bright person. She was Hillary Clinton's secretary of defense in-waiting. So for her to give General [James] Mattis her support, that says something significant."

-- Peter R. Mansoor

#Giving Quotes #Support Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.”
“A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.”

Source : Alex Comfort (2003). “The Joy of Sex”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.”
“One of the first ways to begin building your self-confidence is to focus on what's great about you.”

Source : Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
“One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy.”
“Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.”
“I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying.”
“A clichÃ© is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain,”

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