"Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country."

-- William Lyon Mackenzie King

#Country Quotes #Appreciation Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.”
“[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.”
“Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.”
“Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.”
“We're all who we are endlessly.”

Source : Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.265, Ballantine Books
“Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.”
“You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite of philistine Defiance To do what all good scientists do. Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light.”

Source : Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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