"Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one."

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Source : Mitch Daniels' keynote speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee at Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner in Washington, D.C., www.americanrhetoric.com. February 11, 2011.

Mitch Daniels

#Eye Quotes #Loss Quotes #World Quotes

“One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.”
“Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard to agree. You shine brighter than the Milky Way. Now there are those who might try to take that from you, but you don't have to give it away. Keep on shining Pattyn. And when the right young man comes along, he'll love you all the more for giftin' this sad planet with your light.”
“With each game I play, with each season I play, I'm running out of chances... you're never guaranteed next year. You're never guaranteed the next game. You have to seize the opportunity when it's there in front of you.”

Source : "Favre Knows That Time Is Quickly Running Out". Interview with Judy Battista, www.nytimes.com. January 29, 2004.
“Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.”
“The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of capital for its own sake.”
“The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.”

Source : John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.476
“The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.”
“We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.”

Source : "The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.

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