"We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.”
“The joy of juxtaposition is endless.”
“Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.”
“In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.”

Source : "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 12, 1930.
“My idea of a vacation is to rest quietly in the shade of a blond.”
“I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.”
“One thing I've learned in my career is that you don't have to answer people right away. I've learned how to say, "Can I get back to you about that?" Now I've given myself time to really assess what you asked me to do or what the situation is, think about it, then come up with a plan. Then by doing that, when I come back to you, it's not what I say it's how I say it.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

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