"...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything."

-- Leo Tolstoy

“I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.”
“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.”

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“We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn now to win one”
“Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to wipe out of existence all church-related schools, by regulation or taxation, so that universal ignorance of the life of spirit should prevail.”
“I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.”
“Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.”
“My women are always victorious.”
“I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.”

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