"Sen. Joe Biden, on the day of announcing his candidacy for president of the United States, called Barack Obama the first mainstream African-American who is articulate, bright, and . . . clean. I think we've seen the shortest presidential campaign in history."

-- Jay Leno

#Thinking Quotes #Presidential Quotes #African American Quotes

“The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields
“The problem is that nowadays, with so much information flying around, it is almost impossible to remember anything you saw just a week ago, never mind three years ago!”
“A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.”
“What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.”
“When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.”
“What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.11, Random House
“He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years.”
“The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.”

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