Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

—Ronald Reagan

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About Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an important figure in the American conservative movement. The period encompassing his...

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One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

—Ronald Reagan

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

—Ronald Reagan

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My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

—Ronald Reagan

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I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

—Ronald Reagan

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Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

—Ronald Reagan

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The days you work are the best days.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

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Nonviolence doesn't always work—but violence never does.

—Madge Micheels-Cyrus

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There's a group of Americans who are fully employed. They aren't very well paid or they're not paid at all. They're called mothers, and I've never heard of a mother who wasn't a working mother. And that includes the mothers on welfare.

—Theresa Funiciello

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This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can't put it all back together again. What you do is the only thing that you can do: you take two things that ought to be together and you put them back together. Two things, not all things! That's the way the work has to go. You make connections in your work… That's what we do, we people who make things. If it's a stool or a film or a poem or an essay or a novel or a musical composition, it's all about that. Finding how it fits together and fitting it together.

—Wendell Berry

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Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen—because you love each other.

—Rainbow Rowell in Landline

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