"Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there."

-- John Gimlette

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“I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.”
“There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.”

Source : "'Over the different views with regard to the actual infinite numbers' ('Ueber die verschiedenen Ansichten in Bezug auf die actualunendlichen Zahlen')". Book by Georg Cantor, 1886.
“Obesity affects every aspect of a peoples lives, from health to relationships.”

Source : "Factory meat, cruel and bad for us" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2014.
“I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.”
“I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.”
“Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.”

Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”
“A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out.”
“A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think anyone must ever think about it getting easier.”

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