I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.
Jacques Santer
Recitation: by Male by Female
Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
John Burroughs
FamilyBirdsRareUsSeemsExotic
To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
John Dickey
EducationPowerDirectionBadCreate
We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding to the threat of improvised explosive devices and that delays in providing adequate medium-weight protected patrol vehicles should not have been tolerated.
John Chilcot
SlowBeenFoundDevicesMinistry
You have to be delusional to get into this business, you know?
Anderson East
BusinessYouKnowGetDelusional
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden
ChangeFailureMightFatal
We have captured a luxury and richness with our fur-free fur, which is proof to the fashion industry that killing animals for the sake of fashion is unnecessary.
Stella McCartney
FashionLuxuryAnimalsFurIndustry
Trump made his fortune manipulating tax laws and stiffing small businessmen, creating a few well-paying jobs along the way. Vulnerable people looking to master 'the art of the deal' learned the hard way that Trump held all the cards.
Stephanie Coontz
ArtPeopleLookingSmallCardsTax
Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure.
Stanley A. McChrystal
FailureLessonMilitaryHistorical
People want to learn how other people live. It's just human nature.
Steven Van Zandt
NatureLivePeopleLearnWantHuman
Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read one of the stories in it already, and several other Saunders stories in magazines and anthologies, and liked them all.
Trenton Lee Stewart
IndependentFirstCollectionStories
We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.
Robin Gross
BusinessPathLawCreatingOut
John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.
Mary Cheney
TruthMeOffendedOutAttackOffend
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