"In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate."

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Source : Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.2, Macmillan

Lincoln Chafee

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“When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.”

Source : "How You Can Get Everything Your Mom Couldn't". Interview with Ashley Womble, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 16, 2009.
“I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking about a certain topic - a very specific aspect of a certain topic in some cases. And second, they got really good at figuring out what they had to say about it.”
“We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.”
“On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees.”
“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”

Source : P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.569, Random House
“Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.'”
“[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence”
“The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.”

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