"Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events."

-- Robert Harris

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“In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.”
“I walked over and picked up one of the jugs. "What's this? Some kind of Caster disinfectant?" Lena took it out of my hand and lined it up with the others. "Yeah, it's called bleach.”
“And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they?”
“The Iranians know that if they develop nuclear weapons, they will be in tremendous jeopardy from military capabilities of their neighbors and of the United States. I am not predicting what will happen in 2013, but I do think it is a crucial year. I hope we can make it clear to the Iranians that we do not object to them having peaceful use of nuclear power. But when they enrich Uranium to a 20 percent level, people think they are going for the bomb. Their uranium enrichment program is a real danger.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.
“Clothes are not Botox. Wearing a miniskirt does not take 10 years off your face.”
“Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.”
“I don't want to be sued and cursed-out later.”

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