Charles W. Chesnutt Quotes
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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Bullies always have another target.
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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
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You must have heard that last autumn I almost got married, but I am glad I realized in time that it had been an illusion, all those beautiful things. Although I have always lived for art, I am also attracted to the beautiful in life and so I sometimes do things that seem strange for me.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws.
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There's time enough, but none to spare.
