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“The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.”
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“Those who go along get along.”
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“In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by the words they use. Writing begins with language, and it is in that initial choosing, as one sifts through the wayward lushness of our wonderful mongrel English, that choice of vocabulary and grammar and tone, the selection on the palette, that determines who's sitting at that desk. Language creates the writer's attitude toward the particular story he's decided to tell.”
Source : Donald E. Westlake (2014). “The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany”, p.28, University of Chicago Press
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“Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the wise use of this power we need more, not less, of the objective dispassionate scientific spirit. For our philosophical purposes we need more of its integrity and its basic humility, its respect at once for the fact and the mystery.”
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“That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.”
Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.203, Simon and Schuster
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“I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.”
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“I miss you, but I haven't met you yet!”
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“It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.”
Source : "Pawlenty: GOP surge if health plan fails" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. August 14, 2009. 
