Salmon P. Chase Quotes
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way.
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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
