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When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#common man #construction #doctor #engineer #general

The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably. In Japan, she said, a person learned not to complain or be distracted by suffering. To persevere was always a reflection of the state of one’s inner life, one’s philosophy, and one’s perspective. It was best to accept old age, death, injustice, hardship – all of these were part of living ↗

— David Guterson

#age

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided. ↗

— Charles Curtis

#avoided #bias #hand #kept #prejudice

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. ↗

— Charlotte Curtis

#coast #east #edith #henry #henry james

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#anymore #believe #convinced #either #failed

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#again #honest #i #me #miss

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles. ↗

— Ken Curtis

#crew #excellent #feel #filmed #had

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#expressed #itself #may #years #younger

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

#athens #century #democracies #just #later

I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. ↗

— Leon Czolgosz

#enemy #good #good people #i #killed