"I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled."

-- Stewart Udall

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“What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?”

Source : Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.151, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.”
“Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.”
“Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?”
“For the first month, I listened, and I tried very hard not to draw conclusions”
“Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.”
“56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.”
“Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.”

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