"One of the things the Democratic Party is trying to do is take the word off-year out of our lexicon, because we've tended to be an accordion as a party. We expand in the presidentials; we shrink in between; and we scratch our head and wonder why we lose midterms."

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Thomas Perez

#Party Quotes #Trying Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction.”
“Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.”
“If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually theyâ€™ll be able to run a township, and a county.”
“Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.”

Source : "Straight Man". Book by Richard Russo, 1997.
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
“My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.”
“If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.”

Source : "Physics, in What is Science?: Twelve Eminent Scientists and Philosophers Explain Their Various Fields to the Layman". Book by James Roy Newman, published by Simon and Schuster, p. 102, 1955.
“Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher.”

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