"In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress."

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“We had a few calls saying election precincts had closed early. But it turned out that the callers were in the wrong places. Some people went to the old locations of a church, rather than the new one. We called the polling locations as well as the church pastor and they verified they were still open.”
“I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.”

Source : Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. July, 6 2001.
“Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.”

Source : Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.135, Penguin
“We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.”
“Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”
“Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.”
“Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.”
“Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window.”

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