Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.
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In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
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I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.
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The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.
