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• The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Mistress, Lines, Essentials

  "Whether it's hacking or the NSA, some of us don't accept that privacy is dead". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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• The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.

  Edwina Currie

  Senior, Flirting, Should Have

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Generosity, Giving

  Jane Austen (2016). “The Letters of Jane Austen”, p.81, Jane Austen

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• The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

  Charles Sumner

  War, Greatness, Men

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• A lot will depend on who [Donald] Trump chooses for key cabinet positions, but even more will depend on his consultations with his key advisor (himself).

  David Krieger

  Keys, Trump, Advisors

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I have supported nominees for cabinet-level positions in the Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II administrations with people who I have tremendous disagreements with on substantive matters, and I've always supported them.

  Christopher Dodd

  People, Levels, Matter

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• I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have a lot of Marvel figurines at home in a cabinet. Every time they make a new Marvel figure I put it in my cabinet.

  Stan Lee

  Home, Sound, Underwear

  "Stan Lee Answers Your Questions!". Interview, www.gamesradar.com. January 29, 2014.

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• I think, for the good of the country and the fact that you don't want a question coming up every time there's a decision made, [Donald Trump] should basically take himself out of it and just be a passive participant in the sense that he has no decision-making, no involvement and no decisions get made separate from him. Which is the way the way it's done for more Cabinet offices. Or I think all Cabinet offices.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Country, Thinking, Office

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

  Beatrice Webb

  Government, Littles

  Beatrice Webb (1956). “Diaries, 1924-1932”

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• Hillary Clinton is the smooth central representation of all that, and 'all that' is more or less what is in power now in the United States. It's what we call the establishment or the DC consensus. One of the more significant Podesta emails that we released was about how the Obama cabinet was formed and how half the Obama cabinet was basically nominated by a representative from Citi Bank. This is quite amazing.

  Julian Assange

  United States, Half, Email

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Retirement, Cheer, Character

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• On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no strategy, no narrative and little energy. Old faces from the Brown era still dominate the shadow cabinet and they seem stuck in defending Labour's record in all the wrong ways: we didn't spend too much money, we'll cut less fast and less far, but we can't tell you how.

  Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

  Cutting, Shadow, Energy

  New Statesman, January 5, 2012.

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• George W. Bush filled out his cabinet fairly quickly.

  Kristen Welker

  Filled Out, Filled

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Everybody's complaining about all of Trump's cabinet members, how rich they are, that's horrible. I'd rather have that than a bunch of people in Obama's cabinet that have never spent a minute making a payroll, creating a job, or a service, or inventing a product. What the hell is there about academics from the faculty lounge who don't know what they're talking about other than theoretically. Why not have a bunch of people who have succeeded wildly, sharing what they know, implementing what they know nationwide? I would much rather have that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Talking, Creating

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Iron, Gold

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.161

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• I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.

  Jill Scott

  Song, Writing, Fire

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• I laughed and it almost felt good. "Is that a dig at my liquor cabinet?" Cam smiled. "That wasn't liquor, it was swill. And that wasn't a cabinet, it was a drawer.

  Rachel Vincent

  Liquor, Drawers, Felt

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “Blood Bound”, p.68, Harlequin

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• I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

  Nelson Mandela

  Mistake, President, Next

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've got all of my enemies here in the Cabinet where I can keep an eye on them.

  John Diefenbaker

  Eye, Political, Enemy

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• I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

  David Mamet

  Thinking, Filing Cabinet, Typewriters

  "Arianna's latest battle: taking on geek civilisation" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2005.

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• The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pain, Hate, Dark

  "A Scanner Darkly". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1977.

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• Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then switched on the hall light. In my head, I heard Beck say to my small nine-year-old self, 'Why do we need every light in the house on? Are you signaling to aliens?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Light, Self, Years

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.382, Scholastic Inc.

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• I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

  Sara Zarr

  Thinking, Hands, Scar

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• Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Worry, President

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