"We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day."

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Source : Ann Richards' Address at the Democratic National Convention in Texas, www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1988.

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“Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.”
“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”
“~We were on a family trip to Death Valley, and there were moments when my husband and I wanted to just leave the kids there - all the whining! You think that no other kid can do it as much as yours. When they're with friends, they're great; when they're in the car with just the family, it's maddening at times. But you adore them anyway.~”
“I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.”
“The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy.”
“According to which principle or hypothesis all the objections against the universality of Christ's death are easily solved; neither is it needful to recur to the ministry of angels, and those other miraculous means which they say God useth to manifest the doctrine and history of Christ's passion unto such, who, living in the places of the world where the outward preaching of the Gospel is unknown, have well improved the first and common grace.”

Source : Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.47
“I think I'm plain. I'm normal. I'm plain. I try not to stand out. I don't wear colors.”
“The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.”

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