"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"

-- Dave Barry

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“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”
“I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”

Source : Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale (1930). “Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England”
“Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.”
“We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.”
“Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The revelations emerged despite strenuous efforts by Democrats in Washington and by the IRS itself to block inquiries and deny the existence of political targeting - targeting that the former head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Unit, Lois Lerner, eventually acknowledged and apologized for in May 2013.”
“Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.”
“I remember quotes in the paper, 'Here comes the man that New York loves to hate.' Man? None of you have probably ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what the man is about. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things, have written so many things.”

Source : Pedro Martinez, Michael Silverman (2015). “Pedro”, p.301, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.”

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