"Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, "The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign."

-- Grover Cleveland

#Character Quotes #Fire Quotes #Cleveland Quotes

“When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.”
“And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?”

Source : Owen Barfield (1973). “Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning”, p.67, Wesleyan University Press
“Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short term, but you will completely erode your business and your culture in the long term. You're going to lose all your good people. You're not going to have people tell you the truth, and it becomes the tradition.”
“If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.”
“Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.”
“Enjoy what you have, live in the moment, focus on things you can change and ignore the rest.”
“I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place.”
“Pray to god someone prays for me”

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