"If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008."

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Source : "Obama-clinton Ticket for 2012". www.politico.com. August 02, 2010.

Douglas Wilder

#Running Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Serious Quotes

“[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.”
“About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.”

Source : Ursula Hegi (2011). “Hotel of the Saints”, p.149, Simon and Schuster
“I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things, but rather it was now my intention to experience the evolution of my own soul and to grow spiritually. I wanted to come to know the highest truths of life and to express those truths in action, through myself. I wanted to become the grandest version of the greatest idea I ever held about who I am in regards to my relationship with God.”
“The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.”
“When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.”
“All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.”
“We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery . . .”

Source : "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.
“The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.”

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