Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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You can't impose a legacy.
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I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
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I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
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Tempus edax rerum.
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Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.
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Everyone's entitled to their point of view but that's seriously a weird one.
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Administration is, or ought to be, a necessary overhead to aid production, and should at all times be kept as low as possible.
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To-day we can affirm that the capitalistic method of production is out of date. So is the doctrine of laissez-faire, the theoretical basis of capitalism… To-day we are taking a new and decisive step in the path of revolution. A revolution, in order to be great, must be a social revolution.
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Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.
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For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.
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Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’
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The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.
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Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.
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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
