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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.


Robert Flaherty

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ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes...
ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
ROBERT MUGABE We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
ROBERT MUGABE In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East ...
ROBERT MUGABE Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
ROBERT MUGABE If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth ...
ROBERT MUGABE Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have...
ROBERT MUGABE Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.
ROBERT MUGABE Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, wri...
ROBERT KYNCL The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. T...
ROBERT KENNEDY If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financia...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the co...
ROBERT KENNEDY French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.
ROBERT KIYOSAKI Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the pro...
ROBERT MUGABE I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on.
ROBERT KRAFT To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
ROBERT BYRD And the president is all wrong when he maintains that a nominee should have an up-or-down vote. The ...
ROBERT BYRD This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
ROBERT BYRD It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack....
ROBERT BYRD The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue th...
ROBERT BYRD It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of th...
ROBERT BYRD Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
ROBERT BYRD Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the wo...
ROBERT BYRD I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times o...
ROBERT BYRD Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of havi...
ROBERT BYRD I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the...
ROBERT BYRD