"The presidency is more than a popularity contest."

-- Al Gore

#Popularity Quotes #Contests Quotes

“The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.”
“With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.”
“I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.”

Source : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.14, Truman State University Press
“By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.”
“The first question for me is: Are same-sex unions â€˜marriagesâ€™? Iâ€™m against discrimination, Iâ€™m against hatred, Iâ€™m in favor of marriage equality, but I donâ€™t think same-sex marriage is marriage. Therefore I think it is wrong for the government to insist, through the use of law, that we all believe that same-sex unions are marriages.”
“Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish”

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher
“A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England”
“Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.”

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