"I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate."

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Source : Olympia Snowe: Why I’m leaving the Senate" by Olympia Snowe, www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

Olympia Snowe

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“... only the good deed done for Christ's sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done for Christ's sake, even though it be good, brings neither reward in the future life nor the grace of God in this life. That is why our Lord Jesus Christ said: 'He who gathers not with Me scatters' (Lk. 11:23).”
“In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.”
“You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.”
“A ward, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad; It was high spring, and all the way Primrosed and hung with shade; Yet was it frost within, And surly winds Blasted my infant buds, and sin Like clouds eclipsed my mind.”

Source : Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA
“An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.”
“The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.”
“A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.”

Source : "The Other 'Girls': Jemima Kirke, Zoisa Mamet and Allison Williams on Their New HBO Show". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 13, 2012.
“The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.”

Source : Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.264, Penguin

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