"I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family."

-- Jim Edgar

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“The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.”
“I hope I have a little talent, but a lot of it was luck. I went through setbacks. People said I looked too young, people said I wasn't good, nobody said, 'Come here, baby, we're going to make you a star.' Early on, when I'd say, 'Can I do some anchoring?' people would look at me like I was crazy.”
“I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.”
“When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.”
“If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.”

Source : Janusz Korczak (1967). “Selected works of Janusz Korczak”
“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”

Source : Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.7, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”
“You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.”

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