"One can make a joke, but one can't be one."

-- Duff Cooper

“Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.”

Source : 1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.
“The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.”

Source : Source: www.newyorker.com
“The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.”
“The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.”

Source : "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 49), 2002.
“When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.”
“Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate what other people do with their hands and feet to keep their heads above water, and, finally, you learn to swim by practicing swimming. Trying to solve problems, you have to observe and to imitate what other people do when solving problems, and, finally, you learn to do problems by doing them.”
“I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.”

Source : Source: chicagoist.com
“We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.”

Source : "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2010.

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