Quotes
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Douglas Wilder

"Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it."

Source : "Douglas Wilder On Race, Politics And America". "This American Moment" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 15, 2008.

Douglas Wilder

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“Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.”

Source : Marian Keyes (2017). “Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married”, p.135, Penguin UK
“Trump hasn't really done anything yet to abuse his powers. I don't even know if he knows what all his powers are as president. And that worries me. He will learn. After he learns how the presidency works, he could become much more dangerous, because his personality doesn't change. Once presidents find their powers, they don't give them up. They use them.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.”

Source : Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
“The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, itâ€™s hard to think in 22-year increments since thatâ€™s as long as youâ€™ve been alive. But itâ€™s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.”
“Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!”
“The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.”
“Cole, you stay right where you are. Miz has enough people at ringside tonight.”
“I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.”

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