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A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.


James A. Farley

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JACK FERGUSON an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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NICOLAS CHAMFORT When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
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JEFF NICHOLS Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
THEODOR ADORNO Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.
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JAMES A. MICHENER I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started maki...
JAMES A. MOORE It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enj...
JAMES A. MURPHY Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country th...
JAMES A. MICHENER When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES A. BALDWIN When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge...
JAMES A. FORBES Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the s...
JAMES A. FORBES White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
JAMES A. FORBES The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybod...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
JAMES A. BALDWIN I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small dif...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.
JAMES A. AUTRY They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
JAMES A. MICHENER American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything an...
JAMES A. BALDWIN