Tuesday, December 30, 2008

More Team of Rivals Noted

Lincoln: ""If I have one vice," he later quipped, "and I can call it nothing else,—it is not to be able to say no!" He then smiled and added: "Thank God for not making me a woman, but if He had, I suppose He would have made me just as ugly as He did, and no one would ever have tempted me."", [Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals] - p.177
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Monday, December 29, 2008

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Some more quotes from Team of Rivals

Describing Mary and Abe:
p.107
"She was short and voluptuous, her ample bosom accentuated by stays; he was uncommonly tall and cadaverous.", [Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals]

Also described Mary Todd as capable of making 'a Bishop forget his prayers'.


I'm reading it as an ebook so my page numbers may be off.
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Team of Rivals p.66

"Nor would his community understand the thoughts and emotions stirred by his reading; there were few to talk to about the most important and deeply experienced activities of his mind.", [Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals]

Discussing some of the toils that Lincoln experienced growing up.
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Friday, December 26, 2008

Friday, December 19, 2008

Being Left-handed

Famous cross-dominant people

Leonardo da Vinci - Renaissance artist and scientist
Albert Einstein - Scientist
Richard Feynman - Scientist
Oscar Wilde - Playwriter and poet
Nikola Tesla - Inventor
Michelangelo - Artist
Benjamin Franklin - Scientist
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Religious and political leader
Ludwig van Beethoven - composer
Shawn Michaels - WWE superstar

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Great Quote from Nixon

I'm currently doing my research on Presidential Campaign (TV) Spots. While reading Diamond and Bates's The Spot, I found this great quote from the always colorful Dick Nixon:

"There comes a time in matters like this when you either got to shit or get off the pot...The great trouble here is the indecision."

Also found in his post-presidential memoirs, RN.