"I think we need people in Washington who really have more of a sense of a George Washington approach to it, which is to serve and go home. I think far too many of both parties see it as a career. And I don't think that's good for our country."

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Source : "Lawmaker calls Buffett's bluff". Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. anuary 13, 2012.

Scott Rigell

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“If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition; if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.”

Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.170
“I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.”
“Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.”
“I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.”

Source : "Kate Middleton Gives First Foreign Speech In Malaysia" by Jessica Misener, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2012.
“Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.”

Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”
“Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.”
“Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.”

Source : Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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