Nelson A. Miles Quotes

For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

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• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

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• The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
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• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
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• I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
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• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.

  

  M.I.A.
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• A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Great
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• It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Up
  • Time
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• I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.

  

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  • Story
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• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

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• Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
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• One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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• I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

  

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• I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportunity to have a say and so I think we just have to do what we think is right - and see what the outcome is. God's got a plan.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • People
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• The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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• Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

  

  Yves Montand
  • Believe
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• This is... the funeral of the Cold War. It marks a profound, historical change.

  

  Jack Straw
  • War
  • Cold
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• A human influenza pandemic will be a big problem. But by working together we can respond effectively.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Together
  • Problem
  • Pandemic

• Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Music
  • Country
  • Trying

• For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.

  

  Nelson A. Miles
  • Time
  • Country
  • Peace