"What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian."

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Source : "Panetta and Petraeus" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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“My medium is prose, not the novel.”

Source : David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.23, Vintage
“Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second Law of Thermodynamics poses no problem for an evolutionary origin of life is the most absurdâ€¦ The operation of natural processes on which the Second Law of Thermodynamics is based is alone sufficient, therefore, to preclude the spontaneous evolutionary origin of the immense biological order required for the origin of life.”
“Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.”
“He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.”
“Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.”
“Only Valek would consider an attempt on my life a fascinating diversion.”
“Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.”
“Saving was slow and painful.”

Source : William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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