"It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position."

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Source : "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power". Book by Daniel Yergin, new edition, 1993.

Harold L. Ickes

#People Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Threatening Quotes

“She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.”
“There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.”
“Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.”
“Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.”
“I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.”
“Life isn't fair, but government must be,”
“Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an endâ€¦ The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truthâ€”that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.”
“TV has the longest recall. You remember what you've seen for longer; it has engagement and emotion. It's the most talked about.”

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