"We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America."

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Source : 1994 Address to a European Gala Dinner,11 May.They were his final public words; he died the next morning of a heart attack.

Jeremiah Denton

#Country Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe”
“Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.”

Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.80, Macmillan
“No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.”
“The only thing worse than feeling that you are going to die is the realization that you probably won't.”
“The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust...”
“I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.”
“You know the rule of 72, divide the number into 72, any number you want, and that's how long it will take your money to double.”
“The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.”

Source : "The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach Goes Solo". Interview with Alex Cohen, www.npr.org. February 18, 2009.

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