"Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination."

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Source : 1910 Speech. Quoted in Alan L Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).

Andrew Lang

#Illumination Quotes #Drunk Quotes #Support Quotes

“Failure is not an option. Success is just a process.”

Source : Song: Legendary, Album: Ambition, 2011
“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”
“I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.”
“I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.”
“The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.”

Source : "Wild Life: An Interview With Tim Cahill". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2005.
“In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.”

Source : Sue Johnson, Kenneth Sanderfer (2016). “Created for Connection: The "Hold Me Tight" Guide for Christian Couples”, p.83, Hachette UK
“I'm going to be on a mission. I've handled my personal vendettas and handled them well. Every challenge you put in front of me, I've handled it, dismantled it - ate them, dropped them off in the bathroom and flushed them away.”
“There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.”

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