"People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible."

-- Curtis W. Fentress

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“I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it.”

Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
“If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”
“If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.”
“No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive.”
“It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.”

Source : Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.112, Vintage
“The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.”
“A run has never returned me exactly the same. I go, I grow.”
“If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring.”

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