"A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician."

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Source : Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard (1853). “A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston”, p.247, Boston : Little, Brown

George Stillman Hillard

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“LazyTown is about balance. I'm not there yet.”
“When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.”
“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.”

Source : "Malcolm X: The Man and His Times" edited by John Henrik Clarke, published by Africa World Press (p. 304), 1990.
“I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.”
“I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.”
“What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.”
“A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness.”

Source : Emily Rodda (2012). “Deltora Quest #1: The Forests of Silence”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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