"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."

-- Harry S. Truman

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“Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.”
“I'm preparing to be a mother one day and I really wanted to get inside the mind of a mom.”
“A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.241, Cosimo, Inc.
“It's very relaxing for me to sing. It's a good break from the hard training and the fighting.”
“I have always been a director first and the whole acting thing just happened because none of my friends wanted to be in my videos, so I had to do it myself and wear a bunch of wigs.”

Source : Interview with Tony Farinella, 411mania.com. February 8, 2013.
“Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.”
“Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.”

Source : Ian Mortimer (2012). “The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England”, p.3, Random House
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”

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