"There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics."

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Source : Sir Robert Peel, George Peel (Hon.), Charles Stuart Parker (1899). “Sir Robert Peel: From his private papers”

Robert Peel

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“I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.”

Source : "ED GORMAN CALLING: We Talk to Richard Matheson". www.mysteryfile.com.
“No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.”

Source : Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.51, Crown Business
“I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2010.
“If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.”
“Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in whom, and through whom alone mankind might still have hope. The person of Jesus Christ.”
“Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.”
“Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.”

Source : "Kamala Harris slams Romney on housing" by Drew Joseph, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 2012.
“I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.”

Source : Jack Valenti (2007). “This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood”, p.168, Crown Archetype

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