Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 16, 2016
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952  
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)  
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
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John H. Patterson  
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
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Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)  
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