"Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington."

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David Frum

#Vanity Quotes #People Quotes #Groups Quotes

“Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.”
“The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.”
“I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”

Source : Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.
“Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires that are in alignment with core beliefs generate powerful actions. Like a wave that draws from the depths of the ocean, actions connected to your authentic self are more likely to manifest your intentions.”

Source : David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.33, Health Communications, Inc.
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
“Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'”
“If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or act and thus show ourselves to be worthy bearers of his name. For the quality of holiness is shown not by what we say but by what we do in life.”
“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”

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