"My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel."

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Source : Quoted in David Olive Business Babble (1993).

Lane Kirkland

#People Quotes #Ink Quotes #Argument Quotes

“My parents joined in the 60s and at that time it was really important - there was a group mentality. I could be pulling this out of my ass, but I feel our generation approaches things on a more individual basis, like we're more personal and don't need to be a part of a group.”
“With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.”
“And turns out, it's not Republicans throwing granny off a cliff... It's the Fed!?”
“The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe.”
“As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.”
“Every German child learns to speak English in school.”
“My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even if you have a commander in chief who has served in the military, that person still isn’t engaged on a daily basis. The generals will know best.”

Source : "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.
“I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.”

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