"Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had."

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Source : Charles Frankel (1969). “High on Foggy Bottom: an outsider's inside view of the Government”

Charles Frankel

#Government Quotes

“Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?”
“Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.”
“The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.”

Source : "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.
“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
“How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service.”
“All we have is the story we tell.”
“I want to live like a man.”
“The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, “The Falcon”

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