"The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier."

-- Ulysses S. Grant

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“My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.”
“Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.”

Source : "Saddam's Ultimate Solution". Interview with James P. Rubin, www.pbs.org. July 11, 2002.
“From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.”
“The reason I drink is because when I'm sober I think I'm Eddie Fisher.”
“I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.”
“In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.”
“I love going to work.”

Source : "Vanna White on Nearing 35 Seasons of Wheel of Fortune: 'It Seems Like We Just Started Yesterday'" by Scott Huver and Aurelie Corinthios, people.com. May 1, 2017.
“The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.”

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