"While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant."

-- George Ryan

#Years Quotes #Office Quotes #Training Quotes

“When your ship comes in, make sure you are willing to unload it”
“Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.”
“Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.”
“Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.”

Source : Reinhard Bendix (1990). “Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology”, p.49, Univ of California Press
“As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.”
“I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.”
“Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.”
“Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.”

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