"I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms."

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Source : Ann Romney's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 28, 2012.

Ann Romney

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“In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.”
“Probably our atomic weights merely represent a mean value around which the actual atomic weights of the atoms vary within certain narrow limits... when we say, the atomic weight of, for instance, calcium is 40, we really express the fact that, while the majority of calcium atoms have an actual atomic weight of 40, there are not but a few which are represented by 39 or 41, a less number by 38 or 42, and so on.”
“I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.”
“I didn't want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.”
“This life is slow suicide, unless you read.”

Source : Herman Wouk (1980). “The Caine mutiny”, Pocket
“If Trump wins, the only thing blocking complete implementation of the programs of Trump, Paul Ryan, the Koch brothers, etc., is the Senate filibuster by the Democrats.”

Source : Source: www.democracynow.org
“Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.”

Source : "'Please don't ask me to take it seriously': Terry Wogan's Eurovision quotes" by Leigh Holmwood, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2008.
“Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.”

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