Chelsea Clinton Quotes
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
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Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a 'death in the family.'
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.
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If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
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I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.
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Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
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We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.
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To keep shooting at a folly after it is dead is unsportsmanlike.
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Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. Freedom of inquiry must be preserved under any plan for Government support of science...
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In a dream you are never eighty.
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After years of police work, officers often can't help but be influenced by the cynicism they feel.
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In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.
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There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
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The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.
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The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.
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Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea Of this invention, this invented world, The inconceivable idea of the sun.You must become an ignorant man again And see the sun again with an ignorant eye And see it clearly in the idea of it.Never suppose an inventing mind as source Of this idea nor for that mind compose A voluminous master folded in his fire.
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I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.
