"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."

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Source : William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.126, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

William Howard Taft

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“I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.”
“This business is dog eat dog and nobody is gonna eat me.”
“The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.”

Source : "U.S. Women's World Cup Soccer Hero Returns for Senior Year". Interview with Dave Lohse, www.goheels.com. August 12, 1999.
“Itâ€™s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see whatâ€™s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. â€¦ Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes Iâ€™m just another schmuck that theyâ€™re bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.”
“I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.”
“I have faith that if we caught hold of God's living candle on that truth and went out into the world-I don't care [what vocation] -just out in the world being true to the vision, we would not need to defend the cause of Jesus Christ. People would come and ask; "Where have you found the radiance that I sense in your eyes and in your face? How come you don't get carried away with the world?" And we would answer that the work of salvation is the glorious work of Jesus Christ. But it is also the glorious work of the uncovering and recovering of your own latent divinity.”
“Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.”
“More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.”

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