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I am like that guy on the 'Odd Couple,' and it is not the neat guy. I go into my room and find pieces of pizza under the laundry. ↗

— Rick Majerus

#couple #find #go #guy #i

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

#been #good #i #i quit #me

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#degree #different #different names #extraordinary #foreigners

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#constitution #made #nations #none

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#before #believer #day #dependent #even

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure. ↗

— Michael Malone

#america #failure #greatest #i #i think

I have friends in Utah who care about me as a person, not for what I am. They'll call to see how my heart is, how my blood pressure is. That's important to me. ↗

— Rick Majerus

#am #blood #blood pressure #call #care

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough. ↗

— John Major

#beginning #between #cared #changes #did

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. ↗

— John Major

#allegedly #come #complete #dancing #disillusionment

Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe. ↗

— John Major

#banking #bonds #could #create #crisis