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"I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)" »Jim Lehrer
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"I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive office Building)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." »Mark Russell
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"The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." »Mark Russell
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"It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham
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"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me." »Hugh Prather
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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." »Harriet
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"When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to." »Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda
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"If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand." »J. F. Boyse
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"(Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids." »Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove
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"Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove." »Cardinal John Newman
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"No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"There are no office hours for leaders." »Cardinal James Gibbons
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"Virtue has its own reward, but no box office." »Mae West
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were." »John F. Kennedy
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." »Erma Bombeck
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants." »Alben W. Barkley, U.S Vice President (1949-1953)
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"I hereby resign this office of president of the United States." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God." »Saint Thomas More, upon being executed
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"The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly." »Frederick William Robertson
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"The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office." »Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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"The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached." »William Safire
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"No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it." »John Adams
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"I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better." »Harry S Truman
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"George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they're busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door." »Blow
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"If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States." »H. L. Mencken
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"Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office." »David Broder
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." »Aesop
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"Things could always be worse for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post office." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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