"I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor."

-- Martin Van Buren

#Patriotic Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.”
“I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.”
“I had carefully read the Balfour Declaration. I had familiarized myself with the history of the question of a Jewish homeland and the position of the British and the Arabs. I was skeptical, as I read over the whole record up to date, about some of the views and attitudes assumed by the 'striped-pants boys' in the State Department.”
“The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.”
“The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.”
“I know something of shame...How can we not all feel it? We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own adventure and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors......I think we wake up every day with high intentions and by dusk we have routinely fallen short. Sometimes I think God created the darkness just so he didn't have to look at us all the time.”
“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.”
“It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.”

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