"Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state"

-- Dean Rusk

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Machines Quotes

“I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.”

Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3
“The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.”
“In Europe and Britain they seem to be much more accepting and embracing of older bands, whereas in America if you've been out for three years, you're old, and I think that attitude stinks.”
“Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.”
“I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.”
“I am very careful about what I eat, and I exercise pretty much every day, whether it be rock-climbing, running, Muay Thai, yoga, horse riding, stand-up paddleboarding, or plain and simple working out.”
“Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.”

Source : "Yao Ming: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 10, 2009.
“No doubt the Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom.”

Source : Letter to a sister, Chamberlain Papers, July 30, 1939.

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