"Republicans ought to propose conservative answers to the concerns that are uppermost on most votersâ€™ minds. The libertarian-populist method seems to be to start with the solutions and then to imagine that voters have the relevant concerns. And while many of the proposed solutions have great potential appeal to conservative voters, few would do much to expand their ranks."

-- Ramesh Ponnuru

#Mind Quotes #Answers Quotes #Libertarian Quotes

“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.”
“Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.”
“We rarely wrestle with apology and lose.”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.240, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.”
“Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.”
“Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously,”
“Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.”
“It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.”

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