"The interests of the state must come first."

-- Louis XVI of France

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“The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.”
“I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.”
“I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.”
“We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.”

Source : 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA
“Throughout my professional life, I have looked upon the Corps as a most valuable part of our naval organization, and this opinion has only been the more confirmed by every year's additional experience in active service.”
“Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.”

Source : "Climbing a Mountain for Hunger" by Cat Cora, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.
“The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not a thought. To-day the dictum must be modified to admit that, often, to refrain from an act is no less an act than to commit one, because inhibition is coequally with excitation a nervous activity.”
“Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.”

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