"No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident."

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Source : James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

James Bryce

#Men Quotes #Careers Quotes #Political Quotes

“I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style”
“Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.”
“...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain.”

Source : Rosalie Bertell (1985). “No immediate danger: prognosis for a radioactive earth”
“There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.”
“[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.”
“And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC”
“Self-defense is only an illusion, a dark cloak beneath which lurks a razor-sharp dagger waiting to be plunged into the first unwary victim. Whoever declares that any weapon manufactured today, whether it be a nuclear missile or a .38 special, is created for self-defense should look a little more closely at his own image in the mirror. Either he is a liar or is deceiving himself.”
“I believe I can sing anything.”

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