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“Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.”
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“I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on my hands or the hygiene of my private parts. If I were these things, I would not have been at liberty to pray at any time since my arrest. But I did pray, because I am not these things. In the end, I am not even myself. I am a string of bones speaking the word God.”
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“Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.”
Source : Martha Stewart (2006). “The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build, or Manage a Business”, p.40, Rodale
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“If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.”
Source : Damon Galgut (2010). “In a Strange Room”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.”
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“I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.”
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“A lot depends on the starting point.”
Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.215, Harvard University Press
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“I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.”
