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I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#casual #few #i #ones #only

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#been #big #big deal #daughter #deal

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#children #czechoslovakia #democracy #europe #free

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.' ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#begin #conversations #heads #i #like

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#carcass #corruption #decay #falls #government

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. ↗

— Alan Alda

#bus #discover #doing #get #hard

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. ↗

— Alan Alda

#be happy #happy #necessary #only #rich

Although it's only the beginning of the championship, I am very surprised at my capability. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#am #beginning #capability #championship #i

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#alive #attained #brings #building #cannot

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#embedded #entity #exist #extent #isolated