"You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions."

-- Patrick Leahy

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“I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.”
“For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me.”
“I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."”
“I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.”
“If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts”

Source : "Solitude and Leadership" by William Deresiewicz, theamericanscholar.org. March 01, 2010.
“No one saw the recession coming.”
“The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.”
“The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.”

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