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• A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
  -- Alistair Cooke, journali...
• Seems this fellow was suffering from terrific headaches, and went to his doctor about it.
  The physician made a number of tests, and informed the man that the only thing for his headaches was castration....
• The dismaying thing about man is not where he descended from, but what he is willing to descend to in the course of living life.
• Just look at that face. The face of a thinker, a warrior, a man for all seasons.
  Yet, Ira Graves was not perfect. Perhaps his greatest flaw was that he was too selfless....
• It is the elected official's duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfaction to theirs -- and above all, ever and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.
  But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgement, his enlightened conscience, he ought not sacrifice to you, to any man, or any set of men living....
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- Life of Jefferson (Rayner), p. 356...
• I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to ac
  and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him....
• I remember once being on a station platform in Cleveland at four in the morning.
  A black porter was carrying my bags, and as we were waiting for the train to come in, he said to me...
• If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell
  you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance....