"Americans like fat books and thin women."
-Russell Baker
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"Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.“
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"Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy."
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"Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev."
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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
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"You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause."
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"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
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"Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management."
-Cheryl Crawford
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"There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration."
-Boris Vallejo
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"I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you."
-Ashthon Jones
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"A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are."
-Steve Berry
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"I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album."
-Lee Ritenour
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"My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse."
-Taylor Dayne
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