"Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you."

-- Calvin Coolidge

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“There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.”
“I think the Russians have played now for some time the role of providing cover for Bashar al-Assad's behavior. The alternative explanation that the Russians put forth is simply not plausible.”

Source : "Can Tillerson convince Russia to rethink support for Assad?". www.foxnews.com. April 10, 2017.
“I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.”
“The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.”

Source : 1904-5 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated by Talcott Parsons,1930).
“Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.”
“What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be, like, a really big tomboy.”

Source : "Fruitvale Station‘s Melonie Diaz On Getting “Comfortable” With Michael B. Jordan". Interview with Meghan O'Keefe, www.vh1.com. July 12, 2013.
“Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.”
“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.”

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