"Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it."

-- Frank Muir

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“Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large families - the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, - these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.”

Source : Speech at his Durham election in July 1843. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, p. 100, 1913.
“My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.”
“It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.”
“Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a'Â Â l'espe'Â ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il eÂ chappe me"Â me a'Â Â l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.”
“If you think you cannot do it, you set yourself up to fail anyway. Maybe it will take one more try to do it, and that is what life is about. If you don't get it right on the first try, you try again. You keep doing it and doing it until you find success!”
“The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.”
“Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.”
“Moving to the forefront of advanced nations is not a choice but a national duty. This requires, among other things, erecting the best industrial property protection systems despite all challenges, particularly in the transition phase that we must endure.”

Source : Speech at the National Seminar on Industrial Property and Technology Transfer in Arab States, Amman, Jordan, November 28, 1999.

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