"I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind."

-- Calvin Coolidge

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“The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.”
“If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.”

Source : Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.59
“I think there should be some way to find some kind of reasonable accommodation that allows the state to continue to say, you know, that women's rights supersede any kind of a cultural custom that's oppressive to women, but also potentially allows a woman to take the oath, I don't know, in a separate room. It would be up to the court to find some kind of cultural accommodation.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others.”
“A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself”
“I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.”

Source : Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.
“You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.”
“I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving”

Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.84, Nellie Bly

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