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Six Quotes

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Quoted in Ernest Mignon, Les Mots du General (1962). De Gaulle had earlier been quoted in the N.Y. Times Magazine, 29 June 1958, as saying, "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?"

I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

"G-Eazy: 'I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop'". Interview with Paul MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2014.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

Michael Faraday, F. James (1999). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855”, p.281, IET