"A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity."

-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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“The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.”
“Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.”

Source : "Denmark elects its first female prime minister" by Jan M. Olsen and Karl Ritter, www.sfgate.com. September 16, 2011.
“I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.”

Source : "Women Around the World Want a Clean Energy Future" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.
“Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same. We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems. On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy.”
“You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.”
“With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.”
“Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time youâ€™ve given the speech, but some people may never have heard it. Or, some people may have heard it four times but itâ€™s the first time theyâ€™ve internalized it.”
“When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted, purposively asinine, or all three.”

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