"As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan."

-- Helen Thomas

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“The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.”

Source : "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.
“I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2011). “Velva Jean Learns to Fly: Book 2 in the Velva Jean series”, p.40, Penguin
“I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, 'That's it!' I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they've written a story, nobody will ever try it again.”
“Yoga really helped with stress relief and just not hurting myself when I tour. It really was super helpful.”
“When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.159, Simon and Schuster
“I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.”
“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.”
“You can live a charmed life by causing others to live a charmed life. That is, be the source of 'charm' -- of charming moments and experiences -- in the life of another. Be everyone else's Lucky Charm! Make all who you touch today feel 'lucky' that you crossed their path. Do this for a week and watch things change. Do it for a month and you'll be a different person.”

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