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“In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.”

“I have been asked who caused the riots and the killing in L. A. My answer has been direct and simple. Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. Yes, I can understand how people were shocked and outraged by the verdict in the Rodney King trial. But there is simply no excuse for the mayhem that followed.”

“I believe that I've made good judgments in the past, and I think I've made good judgments in the future.”

“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”

“When you take the UNCF model that, what a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.”

“What we have here is clear-cut evidence that illegitimacy—something I've always said we should talk about in terms of not having it—leads to drug abuse.”

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— Robin Lane Fox

Literature1946

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"Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to b…"

— Alice Meynell

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— Berthe Morisot

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"In place of the mechanical approach adopted by his predecessors, he established principles and procedures that were transparent and based on sound constitutional reasoning."

— K. R. Narayanan

Politics1920–2005

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