"Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls"

-- Kevin Rudd

#Promise Quotes #Election Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“Well I think what - the way things have improved obviously is that the killing has stopped in so for as there is no war. But if you talk to people in the north and east in general, there is a concern that the freedom that they expected as a consequence of the end of the war has yet to be realised.”
“My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.”
“There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.”
“We don't give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students 'low-risk' forms of smoking on the grounds that 'kids are going to smoke anyway.' We shouldn't be giving federal grants to groups that sell contraception, to teach kids to use contraception.”
“My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.”

Source : Carre Otis, Hugo Schwyzer (2011). “Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story”, p.6, Harper Collins
“... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but a thing indifferent; which is an evil to a wicked man, while to the good it is rest and freedom from evils. 'For death is rest to a man whose way is hidden' (Job 3:23 LXX). And so a good man does not suffer any loss from it.”
“...I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

Source : "Climate change emails between scientists reveal flaws in peer review" by Fred Pearce, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2010.
“What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.”

Source : "Richard Gere: My Journey as a Buddhist". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. 1999.

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