"In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective."

-- Mike Dooley

#Wise Quotes #Strong Quotes #Character Quotes

“We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.”
“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.”

Source : "Reagan-Appointed Judge: Deregulation Movement Made ‘A Fundamental Mistake’". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2012.
“Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.”
“I care about how you feel when you're wearing something, because I think that if you feel confident, you look beautiful.”
“More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.”
“Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No.”

Source : "Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 24, 2011.
“There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.”
“I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.”

Source : "The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street". Book by by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273, 1992.

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