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The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.


James Wolcott


#alike #bunny #candidate #consultant #crowd

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.


John Wooden


#admirers #adversity #becomes #being #easily

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.


Kenneth Grahame


#accounts #acquaintance #badger #everybody #felt

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.


E. W. Howe


#forgive #man #more #never #nodding

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.


Elbert Hubbard


#been #intimately #optimist #person #pessimist

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.


Ambrose Bierce


#acquaintance #already #embraced #enables #folly

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.


Charles Bronson


#children #figured #friends #had #i

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.


Lord Chesterfield


#acquainted #country #description #ever #knew

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.


George Catlin


#always #appearance #been #civil #crows

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.


Richard Cecil


#acquiesced #all things #bible #characters #god