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I've always found the thousand dollar dinners more unsettling than the twenty-five-thousand dollar ones --- if someone pays the Republican National Committee twenty-five thousand dollars (or, more likely, fifty per couple) to breathe the same air as Charlie for an hour or two, then it's clear the person has money to spare. What breaks my heart is when it's apparent through their accent or attire that a person isn't well off but has scrimped to attend an event with us. We're not worth it! I want to say. You should have paid off your credit-card bill, invested in your grandchild's college fund, taken a vacation to the Ozarks. Instead, in a few weeks, they receive in the mail a photo with one or both of us, signed by an autopen, which they can frame so that we might grin out into their living room for years to come.


Curtis Sittenfeld


#elections #politician-s-wife #politics #money

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.


Jay-Z


#election #music #obama #politics #usa

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.


Ian Mcewan


#mutation #natural-selection #nature

Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.


Randolph M. Nesse


#natural-selection #nature

No, I mean, I don't think I like him" "Oh." That was something different. "Have you tried?" What a stupid question. "Yes! So hard! I keep waiting for a moment to come when he'll say or do something in common, but it never happens. I think he's handsome, but that's not enough to build a whole relationship on. I don't even know if he's attracted to me. Do you have any idea what kind of things he, you know, likes?


Kiera Cass


#relationship

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.


Aristophanes


#falsehood #government #hypocrisy #politics #popularity

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.


James Baker


#frustrating #i #lose #margins #narrow

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.


M. H. Abrams


#audible #background #codes #communications #environment

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.


Chinua Achebe


#always #best #elected #election #facility

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.


Eric Alterman


#after #ails #designed #election #fix






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