"The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests."

-- Marguerite Yourcenar

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“The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.”
“What I do respect is that Donald Trump knows that it is an emotional appeal and it might be emotional appeals that I don`t - can`t expect.But he knows that you have to appeal to the voter, and that`s why I may be wrong. I made a big deal about there`s no way he`s going to win.”
“the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.”

Source : Lillie Devereux Blake (1883). “Woman's Place To-day: Four Lectures, in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on "Woman" by the Rev. Morgan Dix ...”
“Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.”
“One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all in painting, to look and to look a great deal at painting. There is no other way to find out about painting.”
“I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.”
“I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over.”

Source : Speech in 1979. "Government in America: People, Politics, and Policy" by George C. Edwards, Pearson Education, p. 80, 2009.
“I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.”

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