"No matter how different our First Ladies have been - and as individual women they have ranged from recluses to vibrant hostesses to political manipulators on a par with Machiavelli - they have all shared the unnerving experience of facing a job they did not choose."

-- Margaret Truman Daniel

#Jobs Quotes #Political Quotes #Different Quotes

“The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I.”
“If God loves us enough to send us Prophets, then we need to love Him enough to follow them.”
“Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.”
“The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.”
“In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
“Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.”
“The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.”

Source : In John Cohen Essential Lenny Bruce (1970) p. 59
“To be able to impress, you have to get to this middle ground where you're not too advanced so it goes over people's heads, and you're not too minimalist where people think you're just trying to rob the game and not stretch out.”

Source : Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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