"A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such."

-- Revilo P. Oliver

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“I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.”
“Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.”
“Atlanta is not the South.”
“A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.”

Source : Barry Neil Kaufman (1996). “Out-smarting Your Karma: And Other Preordained Conditions”, Option Institute
“Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.”
“You ask me why I donâ€™t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that personâ€™s happiness in every way is to â€œloveâ€ then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence.”
“A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.”

Source : David Stockman (2013). “The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed”, p.75, PublicAffairs
“NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.”

Source : "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 01, 2004.

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