"Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist."

-- Tom DeLay

#Emotional Quotes #Trying Quotes #Minimum Wage Quotes

“I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.”
“I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.”
“We all make mistakes but one has to move on.”

Source : "Archer: down under but not out" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2005.
“Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the Latin references to Christ are not to a person of that name. In the Dead Sea Scrolls there was mention of a particular "teacher of righteousness" who had characteristics somewhat like those attributed to Christ, but it might easily have been someone else.”
“The Clintons want to do big worthy things, but they also want to squeeze money from rich people wherever they live on planet Earth, insatiably gobbling up cash for politics and charity and themselves from the same incestuous swirl.”
“Luck ran out, but smart was for life.”

Source : John Connolly (2012). “The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.170, Simon and Schuster
“A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.”
“I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.”

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