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Shortly after moving into the British prime minister's official residence (10 Downing Street, London) with his wife (and new Prime Minister) Margaret, Denis Thatcher was presented with a tricky question by a wily reporter: "Who wears the pants in this house?"
"I do," Thatcher replied. "And I also wash and iron them." |
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While vacationing in Dublin, Ireland, Henry Ford was asked to contribute to a collection for a new orphanage. Ford agreed, writing a check for two thousand pounds.
----------------------------------------The following day, his generosity made headlines in the local paper, which incorrectly quoted the donation as twenty thousand pounds. The director of the orphanage called Ford to apologize. "I'll phone the editor straight away and tell him to correct the mistake," he said. "There's no need for that," Ford replied. "I'll give you a check for the remaining eighteen thousand pounds, but only on one condition..." The condition? "When the new building opens," Ford explained, "I want this inscription on it: I WAS A STRANGER, AND YOU TOOK ME IN." |
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Albert Einstein was once introduced to the eighteen-month-old son of a young friend. The infant looked into the old physicist's wizened face and promptly began to bawl.
----------------------------------------"You're the first person for years," Einstein declared, patting the child on the head, "who has told me what you really think of me." |
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Eleanor Roosevelt once subjected Winston Churchill to a diatribe on the subject of British imperialism. "The Indians have suffered for years under British oppression," she declared.
----------------------------------------"Are we talking about the brown-skinned Indians in India who have multiplied under benevolent British rule," Churchill retorted, "or are we speaking about the red-skinned Indians in America who, I understand, are now almost extinct?" |
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By a strange coincidence Jefferson and his old rival John Adams both died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—July 4, 1826. On the evening of July 3, Jefferson was in bed, his life ebbing rapidly. "This is the Fourth?" he whispered to a young friend watching by his bedside. The man couldn't bring himself to say that it was not yet, so kept silent. Jefferson repeated the question, and this time the friend nodded. A look of deep satisfaction came over Jefferson's face, he sighed deeply, lay back, sank into a deep sleep, and died shortly after noon on the Fourth.
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In 1521, when Charles v renewed his struggle with the French king, Francis I, over the empire's Italian lands, the emperor remarked, "My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord — he wants Milan, and so do I."
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Frank Sinatra was famed for his womanizing ways. Indeed, Sinatra bedded so many women, James Dean once declared, that "when he dies they're giving his zipper to the Smithsonian."
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One day shortly before leaving office, Teddy Roosevelt, in the process of planning an Africa safari, discovered that certain a legendary big-game hunter was visiting Washington and invited the man to drop by to impart some advice.
----------------------------------------Visiting Roosevelt at the White House, the hunter, after a two hour meeting, emerged from the president's office in something of a daze. "What did you tell the president?" someone asked. "My name," the baffled man replied. "After that he did all the talking!" |
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Will Rogers, having paid too much income tax one year, tried in vain to claim a rebate. His numerous letters and queries remained unanswered. Eventually the form for the next year's return arrived. In the section marked "DEDUCTIONS," Rogers listed: "Bad debt, US Government—$40,000."
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