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We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#affecting #crisis #delicate #developed #established

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally. ↗

— Karl Rove

#anything #cindy #clown #face #his

I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years. ↗

— Karl Rove

#average #grateful #house #i #knew

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically. ↗

— Karl Rove

#bad #been #dawning #democrats #else

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. ↗

— Karl Rove

#adams #arranged #hire #james #jefferson

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#hardest #his #intentions #life #man

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#his #how #inferiors #man #measure

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#even #foolproof #his #impress #knew

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#live #lives #needed #our #our lives

Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai. ↗

— David Rudisha

#also #back #be the first #because #being