Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
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Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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Instead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
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When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
