"Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one."

-- Charles Evers

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“Sometimes I feel like I never actually make any of my own. Choices, I mean. My entire life it just seems I never...you know, had a real say about any of it. Now this last one, cancer...all I have left is how I choose to approach this.'”
“The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.”

Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.142, Harvard University Press
“An open umbrella is just a closed beautiful sky.”
“I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.”
“90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?”
“Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.”
“Celtic enjoys a greater community spirit than any other club in the world.”
“By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilization as against barbarism, of progress as against stability. Even if the agreements were in Denmark's favor -- which is very doubtful-this right carries more weight than all the agreements, for it is the right of historical evolution.”

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