"Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new."

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Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

Emanuel Celler

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“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch herâ€”doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”
“Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.”
“Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.”
“Ye canna give up hope when that is all ye have.”
“I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.”
“This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.”
“Sometimes it takes courage to leave.”

Source : Ann Rinaldi (2002). “The Staircase”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I studied a lot of Foghorn Leghorn.”

Source : "Comic-Con ’12: Quentin Tarantino Wows Hall H Faithful With Bombastic Footage From 'Django Unchained' & More From The Presentation" by Jeff Otto, www.indiewire.com. July 15, 2012.

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