Charles Ruff Quotes
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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CrossFit is just another thing I've become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There's many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It's been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.
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I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
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I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
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The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.
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To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. As part of the universal city that is the universe, human beings have a duty of care to all fellow humans. The person who followed these precepts would achieve happiness.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.
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Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
