"You know, I think what people want more than anything is they just want people to do what they say they're going to do."

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Source : "Meet the Congressman Who Confronted President Obama". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2010.

Jason Chaffetz

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.”
“Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.”
“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple â€œfirstâ€ things.”

Source : "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.
“Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...”
“In comparison to the U.S. health care system, the German system is clearly better, because the German health care system works for everyone who needs care, ... costs little money, and it's not a system about which you have to worry all the time. I think that for us the risk is that the private system undermines the solidarity principle. If that is fixed and we concentrate a little bit on better competition and more research, I think the German health care system is a nice third way between a for-profit system on the one hand and, let's say, a single-payer system on the other hand.”
“Iâ€™m always looking to top the last match, Iâ€™m always looking to entertain the fans and steal the show. Before I always thought that it was a case of opportunities, but Iâ€™m learning that itâ€™s all in my control and I just want to keep on doing what Iâ€™m doing by giving my best. Iâ€™ve got a couple more magical matches left in me and hopefully at some stage, I guess the biggest honour would be going into the TNA Hall of Fame.”
“The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.”

Source : Joseph Butler (1867). “The Analogy of Religion, to the Constitution & Course of Nature...”, p.215
“I had a dream I was walking down the street and didn't have to hold anyone's hand”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 29, 2011

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