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The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.


Richard Lugar


#again #beginning #came #career #class

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.


Ian MacKaye


#above #both #complain #down #fact

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.


Bishop Robert South


#defends #innocence #like #polished

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.


Kim Novak


#i #matter #name #polish #well

Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany.


Hjalmar Schacht


#back #besides #colonial #corridor #earth

St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.


Bud Selig


#louis #milwaukee #minneapolis #than

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.


Georg Simmel


#both #conditions #development #men #metropolis

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.


Brittany Snow


#bit #black #edgy #good #i

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.


Georg Simmel


#been #economy #metropolis #money #seat

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.


Alfred Newman


#flavors #furniture #lemonade #lemons #living