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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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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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.
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You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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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.
