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William Howard Taft

"The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments."

-- William Howard Taft

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“The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.”
“It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.”
“Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for momentsâ€¦ And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.”
“I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.”

Source : "Not afraid of the dark" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2007.
“We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.”
“We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.”
“When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.”
“Politically, sometimes you get situations where rent control will go through. It is especially true in an emergency, where there is a sudden, sharp increase in demand for housing or a cut back in supply. People will simply not allow the marketplace to allocate housing resources and so you get pressures for rent control. Once you have it, it is hard to eliminate.”

Source : Source: www.aims.ca

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