"I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation."

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Source : "Dodd praise for Byrd hit by GOP". www.washingtontimes.com. April 8, 2004.

Christopher Dodd

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Virginia Quotes

“Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.”
“Smart mobile phones connect you with 1 billion users worldwide, basically for free - you don't pay for the phone, you don't pay for the Internet, you don't pay for the wireless connectivity. Social networks let you add a new customer or a new agent, again for free.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Lovecraft gives me the pip as he uses so much description that needs heavily condensing.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I like to work as little as possible to make the most money possible.”
“There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.”
“We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.21, Profile Books
“Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.”

Source : Eugene Pleasants Odum (1983). “Basic Ecology”, Saunders College Pub
“At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridiculous.”

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