"I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction."

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Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 15, 2010.

David Petraeus

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“Normal relations, never. We should never forget what has happened to the people in Cuba for forty years. All baseball cares about is getting players out of Cuba. It doesn't care about the suffering, just money. The Orioles shouldn't have gone to Cuba. This is a free county, but that's the way I feel.”
“Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.”
“[Obama's] roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.”

Source : Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
“We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.”

Source : "The mysteries of love" by Sara Reistad-Long, www.realsimple.com.
“I don't regret anything that I ever did. You just look back at things and you either learn from them or get what you can from them but I wouldn't change what I did.”
“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.”
“Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.”
“I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.”

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