Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Of course I get hurt.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
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Whenever you are out of work, you need to take the opportunity to do things you like to do.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
