David Ben-Gurion Quotes
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
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Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
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At 7, I was shooting 3s with so much ease that the guys at the neighborhood park were impressed. Michael Jordan was one of the best humans to walk the earth in my eyes, third only to Jesus and my mother.
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I love to train. Always have.
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A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.
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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
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Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
