Charles James Fox Quotes
...he was indebted to his right honourable friend Edmund Burke for the greatest share of the political knowledge he possessed,-his political education had been formed under him,-his instructions had invariably governed his principles.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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There is more to life than show business.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
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I'm not terribly sentimental.
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I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.
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...he was indebted to his right honourable friend Edmund Burke for the greatest share of the political knowledge he possessed,-his political education had been formed under him,-his instructions had invariably governed his principles.
