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In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler.


Frederick Scott Oliver

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FREDERICK WISEMAN Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
FREDERICK WISEMAN I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the ch...
FREDERICK WISEMAN However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who...
FREDERICK REINES During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing...
FREDERICK REINES (Gore) can clearly disagree, but the president has made his opinion quite clear on the NSA wiretaps ...
FREDERICK JONES Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why t...
FREDERICK SODDY On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
FREDERICK SODDY A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about hi...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.
FREDERICK LEBOYER But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
FREDERICK SODDY It's a smart strategic move for XM because they need to answer the Howard Stern question. It's not a...
FREDERICK MORAN I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposit...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS FDX Corp. is benefiting from the accelerated move to fast-cycle production and distribution methods,...
FREDERICK SMITH FDX Corp. is benefiting from the accelerated move to fast-cycle production and distribution methods,...
FREDERICK SMITH This strategic investment in the long-term growth of China will broaden and deepen our relationship ...
FREDERICK SMITH Gary's leadership transformed FedEx Kinko's into a global network offering the industry's broadest r...
FREDERICK SMITH \[Gore\] can clearly disagree, but the President has made his opinion quite clear on the NSA wiretap...
FREDERICK JONES The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
FREDERICK FORSYTH We've been delighted at the outcomes of these events. We begin planning earlier and earlier each yea...
CAROLE FREDERICK Go where your best prayers take you.
FREDERICK BUECHNER You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you ca...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
FREDERICK BUECHNER Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually...
FREDERICK REINES I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed mo...
FREDERICK SANGER It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts ...
FREDERICK POLLOCK ...I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ar...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I dwell mostly upon the religious aspects, because I believe it is the religious people who are to b...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for the...
FREDERICK BUECHNER