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Quotations
16-31 July 2009
- Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself."
(Francis Quarles 1592-1644)
- You cannot lead this country by misleading the people.
(Dan Quayle US vice-president, under George Bush)
- Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
(Francois Rabelais)
- The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
(John Randolph 1773-1833)
- You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go."
(Jeannette Rankin 1880-1973)
- As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."
(Frederic Raphael)
- Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
(John Ray 1627-1705)
- Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
(John Ray 1627-1705)
- It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
(Man Ray)
- Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about. . .
(Sam Rayburn)
- When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.
- But there are dvantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret."
(Ronald Reagan)
- An actor knows two important things -- to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.
(Ronald Reagan)
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