"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."

-- Bob Woodward

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“I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.”
“I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.”
“The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.”
“Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.”
“The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.”

Source : "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”
“Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.”

Source : charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”
“Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that the emptinessis as much as inside you as outside you.For it falls out,that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it;but being lacked and lost,why,then we rack the value,then we find the virtue that possesion would not show us while it was ours.That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister.”

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