"Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats."

-- Joe Klein

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“It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.”
“In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.”
“There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.”
“Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover and see along the way.”

Source : Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.130, Zondervan
“In the very first part of the constitution there is the article that refuses any law or any article in discrepancy with Sharia. We Iraqis feel it was imposed on us. It wasn't a local thing. Iraqis have led a sort of secular life for almost 50 years.”
“War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the ***** of war.”

Source : 'The Custard Boys' (1960) ch. 13
“People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!”
“Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.”

Source : Robert Jastrow (1969). “White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars”

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