Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Quotes to Explore
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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I like being unconventional.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.
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I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.
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Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.
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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
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Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.
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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
