"I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back."

-- Abraham A. Ribicoff

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“The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of the Labour Party and the history of Britain, whether now might be a better time to let a new leader in who could then achieve the unity we need if we are going to go forward.”
“Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.”
“Become intensely conscious of the present moment.”
“The one thing that is said to have surprised God is that the voice of intercession had ceased. 'And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor' (Isaiah 59:16).”
“I really don't understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years.”

Source : "You’ll Never Get This 21 Minutes Of Your Life Back" by John Cole, www.balloon-juice.com. February 5, 2009.
“I don't know why it's so hard to believe women. You to go Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man. Here you need 25.”
“Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.”

Source : Eleanor Catton (2013). “The Luminaries”, p.260, Granta Books
“Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.”

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