"The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity."

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Olivia Goldsmith

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“If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.”
“The reason why things work is because of love.”
“Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.”
“We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.”

Source : "Obama's CIA Pick Has Confirmation Hearings". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 5, 2009.
“I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.”
“A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.”
“When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.”
“I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.”

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