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“Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.”
Source : "'He tried his best to veil it, but Obama is an intellectual'" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008. 
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“Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.”
Source : POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.
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“What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.”
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“More and more women are going online.”
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“I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?”
Source : Gary Saul Morson (2011). “The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture”, p.4, Yale University Press
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“The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.”
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“Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.”
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“I'm not a guy that sets a number of goals. If I can go out and continue to have a consistent approach every day and get to where I feel comfortable enough. Then I go into a game, relax and play, the numbers will take care of themselves.”
