"Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none."

-- Brian Mulroney

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“I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as a player, has been on winning basketball clubs and it just seems to have been a part of the make-up of whatâ€™s been given me. Thatâ€™s what Iâ€™ve been given and thatâ€™s what Iâ€™ve had to deal with. Some people can make fun of it or some people can have a good time with it, or some people can resent it. Itâ€™s just what it is.”
“I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.”
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

Source : Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.242, Best Books on
“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting â€œVanity,â€ thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
“People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tony A. Gaskins Jr from Apr 18, 2013
“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.”

Source : Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.448
“I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.126, Macmillan
“Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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