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“Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.”
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“I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.”
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“We've focused a lot on visible evidence. We believe that a community needs to make the visible statement about who the community is.”
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“I've been deeply concerned that to date no individuals have been convicted for the brutal killing of three United States citizens, the Bytyqi brothers: Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet.... It's a long time ago, we want to move on, but eleven years after the discovery of their bodies no one has been held accountable for their killing and the chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.”
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“The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.”
Source : John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.5
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“Poetry is prose in slow motion.”
Source : Nicholson Baker (2009). “The Anthologist: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
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“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.”
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“I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.”
Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.72, Penguin