"U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer."

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Source : "Singing songs to connect America and China" By Abigail Washburn, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2012.

Abigail Washburn

#Needs Quotes #Lawyer Quotes #China Quotes

“Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.”
“It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.”
“If there be no place for wild bison in all of Montana, then surely we have crossed a line between the Last Best Place and the the Once Best Place.”
“I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.”
“I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
“Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.”
“This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.”
“The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative effects of others' actions. It is like a set of invisible mirrors that surround individuals, households or firms, reflecting back on them the consequences of their acts. The industrious will reap the benefits of their industry; the frugal the consequences of their frugality; the improvident and the profligate likewise. They receive their due, which is to say they experience justice as a matter of routine.”

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