"You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility."

-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Thinking Quotes #Style Quotes #Satire Quotes

“Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion.”

Source : "Flawed Intelligence In The 'War Of Our Time'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2015.
“Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“If you can make the hits, then you won't be an Internet rapper anymore. It's good for hip-hop.”

Source : "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interveiw with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.
“If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice”
“I shall have more to say when I am dead.”

Source : "John Brown" l. 199 (1920)
“But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.”
“Even in Heaven, the most perfect City in the World, there are going to be different levels, different classes, different stages, some very high, some very low.”
“Sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.”

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