Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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I am not honest.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Fascism is very much a mob movement.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.
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When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem".
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
