"An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach."

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Source : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.157, Booklassic

George du Maurier

#Apples Quotes #Peaches Quotes #Excellent Quotes

“Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!”
“The Practice I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long.”

Source : "Actress Kelli Williams". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. July 12, 2010.
“With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.”
“Whoever mocks his brother for a sin they repented from will not die till he himself falls into the same sin.”
“The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.”

Source : "Sunset Salvo" by John Tukey in The American Statistician, Volume 40, No. 1 (pp. 72-76), www.jstor.org. February 1986.
“We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.”

Source : "State Of The Union With John King", transcripts.cnn.com. September 6, 2009.
“It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.”

Source : Dick Couch (2012). “Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger”, p.151, Penguin
“True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery.”

Source : Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.286, Courier Corporation

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